more education you have, the more money you earn. really?

More Education, More Money? 25% of Young Black Men Unemployed Become a Weatherization Specialist Still at a Disadvantage Legal Challenge to Washington DC Boys of Color Program Michelle Alexander with One of Best Speeches of Past 25 Years Links: The Black Star Project's website: blackstarproject.org Black Star Journal: blackstarjournal.org Become a Member: Click Here Make a donation: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: In America, generally, the more education you have, the more money you earn. The above diagram comes from a report titled "The College Payoff: Education, Occupations, Lifetime Earnings" released 4 August in 2010 by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. As the title reflects, the study looks at how lifetime earnings change based on education level and also by occupation. The report looks at what percentage of the time that occurs, and what occupations are the highest and lowest paying based on levels of education. Click Here to Read Full Report 50 Years after the Moynihan Report, More than One-Quarter of Young Black Males Are Neither Employed nor Enrolled in School or Vocational Training The incarceration rate for young black men without a high school diploma rose from 10 percent in 1980 to 37 percent by 2008 By The External Relations, EducationNext January 13, 2015 Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1965 report on the structural causes of the fragmentation of the Black family has been so hotly debated that serious research on the complexity of the problem has been undermined for decades.  Now on the 50th Anniversary of "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," and in new research for Education Next, Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson with Harvard colleagues James Quane and Jackelyn Hwang, find poor Black children today are increasingly likely to grow up in family units in the inner city whose dire circumstances affect every aspect of their lives. As they enter adulthood, many young Blacks, particularly males, have experienced unemployment and disconnection from schools and vocational institutions at rates ranging from 20 to 32 percent. By 2011, nearly two years after the Great Recession, more than one-quarter of young Black males were neither employed nor enrolled in school or vocational training.  The rates for white and Hispanic young people were also high in 2011, around 20 percent, but for Black youth the rate has been about 10 percentage points higher throughout this period. Black youth are also more likely to be confined in correctional facilities. Although the percentage of juvenile offenders under the age of 18 confined in a correctional facility declined from 1 percent to half that level between 1997 and 2011, they were still five times as likely to be in detention or correctional facilities in 2011 than their white peers.  Today, Blacks constitute nearly half of all people jailed and imprisoned in the U.S., but their rates of incarceration vary greatly by education level. Among Black young men who were behind bars in 2008, 37 percent were high school dropouts. For those with a high school diploma, that rate drops to 9 percent. Among those with some college, the rate falls to 2 percent, closer to that for young men from other racial backgrounds.  Click Here to Read Full Story  The Black Star Project presents  2015 WEATHERIZATION SPECIALIST TRAINING  Train for a new career in the growing field of residential weatherization!   MUST PASS DRUG SCREEN  AND BASIC MATH / READING TEST  MUST RESIDE IN DOUGLAS, BRONZEVILLE, WOODLAWN OR NEW CITY NEIGHBORHOODS  MUST BE MOTIVATED TO SUCCEED AND ABLE TO ATTEND ALL SCHEDULED CLASSES DURING THE 10 WEEK COURSE  CLASSES MEET IN THE EVENINGS AND SATURDAYS  PREVIOUS CONSTRUCTION EXPERIENCE HELPFUL BUT NOT REQUIRED  WEEKLY STIPEND PROVIDED This FREE part-time course prepares you for certification with the Building Performance Institute. This national certification is the industry standard in residential weatherization work. You will learn the theories behind residential weatherization and gain hands-on experience installing insulation and air-sealing measures. 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Click On SHORT WEBSITE SURVEY  to take our short survey and to visit our website Still at a Disadvantage (Ivy League Degree Not Much Help to  Black Students Seeking Employment) By Jake New March 6, 2015 Throwing another wrench into the belief that higher education is the great equalizer, a new paper suggests that African-American graduates from elite institutions do only as well in getting jobs as white candidates from less-selective institutions. The study, published in the journal Social Forces, shows that while a degree from an elite university improves all applicants' chances at finding a well-paid job, the ease with which those jobs are obtained is not equal for black and white students even when they both graduate from an institution such as Harvard University.  A white candidate with a degree from a highly selective university, the paper suggests, receives an employer response for every six résumés he or she submits. A black candidate receives a response for every eight. White candidates with degrees from less-selective universities can expect to get a response every 9 résumés, while equally qualified black candidates need to submit 15. "Most people would expect that if you could overcome social disadvantages and make it to Harvard against all odds, you'd be pretty set no matter what, but this experiment finds that there are still gaps," said S. Michael Gaddis, the author of the paper and the Robert Wood Foundation Scholar in Health Policy at the University of Michigan.  "Once you get out, you still have to deal with other human beings who have preconceived notions and misguided stereotypes about why you were able to go to this college." Gaddis gave the candidates names that were likely to signal to potential employers what their races were -- black male applicants were named Jalen, Lamar and DaQuan; black female applicants were named Nia, Ebony and Shanice; white male applicants were named Caleb, Charlie and Ronny; and white female applicants were named Aubrey, Erica and Lesly. Click Here to Read Full Story Click Here to Read Full Study, Discrimination in the Credential Society: An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market                          Bowser, Cheh Again Clash on School for Minority Boys as ACLU Gets Involved By Will Sommer February 24, 2015 Is Mayor Muriel Bowser's plan to spend $20 million for minority male students legal? Now even more people have opinions about it. In a letter yesterday to Bowser, the District's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union warned that the proposed new boys' school could violate Title IX restrictions. Then this morning, Bowser and Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh got heated again over the plan during the mayor's breakfast with the D.C. Council. The plan, proposed by D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, would spend $20 million on the east of the Anacostia River school, a literacy mentoring program, and grants meant to help black and Latino boys. Henderson insists that DCPS considered Title IX, which restricts gender-biased discrimination in education, before announcing the program last month. In her letter to Bowser, Henderson, and Attorney General Karl Racine, Monica Hopkins-Maxwell, executive director of ACLU of the Nation's Capital, asks whether the District has already accounted for Title IX. (Racine is still working on his opinion about the school and Title IX). "Girls and women are sometimes left to the side," Cheh said. "They're sometimes invisible." Bowser told Cheh that she had no interest in promoting the boys' program at minority girls' expense. Click Here to Read Full Story Listen To and View One of the  Best Civil Rights/Human Rights Speeches of the Past 25 Years  by  Michelle Alexander Click Here to View and Hear the Speech at Union Theological Seminary in New York City Click Here to Purchase a Copy of Her Book, The New Jim Crow from a Black Bookstore This posting is courtesy of Gloriadine Smith, Board Member of The Black Star Project.