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| 639f7f7 | During the early 1980s, the overall black unemployment rate stood at 15.5 percent--"an all time high" since the Great Depression--while unemployment among African American youth was a staggering 45.7 percent. At this point Reagan chose to slash the training, employment, and labor services budget by 70 percent--a cut of $3.805 billion.90 The only " 'urban' program that survived the cuts was federal aid for highways--which primarily benefited.. | Carol Anderson |