Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Op-Ed Columnist - Behind the Laughter - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/opinion/13herbert.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

Even as teachers by the tens of thousands are walking the plank to unemployment, we’re learning, as The Times reported last week, that one in every 10 young male dropouts is locked up in jail or juvenile detention. As if that weren’t gruesome enough, we find that the figure for blacks is one in four. What would it take to get the perpetual crisis facing these young people onto the radar screens of the rest of America?

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