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Unemployment and African Americans
To reduce state prison overcrowding, counties must now take charge of parolees, recent convicts and those newly accused of non-serious, nonviolent, non-sex-related offenses...
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenTo reduce overcrowding in state prisons, counties are now required to take charge of parolees, recent convicts and those newly accused of non-serious, nonviolent, non-sex-related offenses. LA County will get the lions' share, starting the first of October. Will the state provide extra money? Does the County have a real plan? Also, LA Democrat Karen Bass hosts a traveling jobs fair for the Congressional Black Caucus. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, FEMA, disaster relief and the politics of climate change.
Banner image: Attendees at the Congressional Black Caucus' 'For the People' jobs fair.
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3 storiesLA County Readies for Prison Inmates
LA County Supervisors today took up a plan to put the beleaguered Probation Department in charge of state prisoners, parolees and those newly accused of non-serious nonviolent, non-sex-related offenses. They'll become the County's problem under a new state law to reduce overcrowding in state prisons. The law goes into effect in October.
Read the story14 minUnemployment and African Americans
National unemployment is at nine percent, but among black Americans it's much higher. For blacks in California, it's 19.3 percent. The Congressional Black Caucus has been talking about job creation and the economy at job fairs and town halls in five cities around the country.
Read the story13 minFEMA, Disaster Relief and the Politics of Global Warming
Hurricane Irene is the most recent in a string of natural disasters, including the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, flooding in Minot, North Dakota, drought in Texas and wildfires in the Southwest.
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