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We're tied with WPI?! Impressive on WPI's part.
 
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Tied for 20 for Top Public Universities w/ Purdue and Turtle U.
 
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Is this not the first time we've dropped in a while? I don't pay attention that often but I thought we'd been on an upward trajectory for a while.
 

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All these ties are such a cop out by US News.

7 way tie at 60th? Give me a break.
 

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This is not good. If we stopped giving so much out in entitlements we'd have more money to spend on people (UConn research, academics, etc.) who actually contribute to society.
 

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Not that mega corps should be subsidized (they shouldn't), but if you got rid of their subsidies they would likely pay even lower wages and benefits out to employees in order to
maximize profits.
The only "entitled" ones are industry, with their plethora of subsidies and protections, forcing taxpayers to cover health insurance and daily costs for their own employees because they pay poor wages. Megacorps are more subsidized than the American People are or ever have been
 

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Totally. 1950s kicked ass as long as you weren't black, Latino, gay, a woman, poor or basically anyone but a upper, to upper middle class white dude.
I was referring to the get off the couch and get a job part. To be fair, blacks had a lower unemployment rate than whites in the 50s pre the War on Poverty.
 
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I was referring to the get off the couch and get a job part. To be fair, blacks had a lower unemployment rate than whites in the 50s pre the War on Poverty.

Congrats this may be the most ridiculous thing I've ever read on this board.

Are you actually kidding me? At a time that Jim Crow ruled and Black Americans were lawfully kept out of jobs and schools, you're going to tell me that Black Americans pre 1950 had a lower unemployment rate than whites?

For starters, the bureau of Labor Statistics only started tracking employment by race in 1954, so any statistics you are grabbing before that are anectdotal at best.

In 1954 unemployment among blacks was twice that of whites, with Pew acknowledging that the pattern likely emerged in the 40s.

In fact War on Poverty and Great Society programs of the 1960 narrowed the gap better than almost at any other time in the last 50 years and the two largest spikes in the gap can be seen in the early 70s (Nixon/Ford) and 1983 (Reagan). As recent as 2011 the gap was a much smaller.

Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites

Nice try though.
 

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Congrats this may be the most ridiculous thing I've ever read on this board.

Are you actually kidding me? At a time that Jim Crow ruled and Black Americans were lawfully kept out of jobs and schools, you're going to tell me that Black Americans pre 1950 had a lower unemployment rate than whites?

For starters, the bureau of Labor Statistics only started tracking employment by race in 1954, so any statistics you are grabbing before that are anectdotal at best.

In 1954 unemployment among blacks was twice that of whites, with Pew acknowledging that the pattern likely emerged in the 40s.

In fact War on Poverty and Great Society programs of the 1960 narrowed the gap better than almost at any other time in the last 50 years and the two largest spikes in the gap can be seen in the early 70s (Nixon/Ford) and 1983 (Reagan). As recent as 2011 the gap was a much smaller.

Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites

Nice try though.
Black Unemployment
Notice the part where the labor force participation for blacks between 1900 and 1954 is higher in every age group than for whites. Good job getting the top search result from Google by the way.
 
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Black Unemployment
Notice the part where the labor force participation for blacks between 1900 and 1954 is higher in every age group than for whites. Good job getting the top search result from Google by the way.

Holy crap you really are going to send me a link to a conservative blog to repudiate a report by Pew Research?

Yup, we're done here. Troll on.
 

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Congrats this may be the most ridiculous thing I've ever read on this board.

Are you actually kidding me? At a time that Jim Crow ruled and Black Americans were lawfully kept out of jobs and schools, you're going to tell me that Black Americans pre 1950 had a lower unemployment rate than whites?

For starters, the bureau of Labor Statistics only started tracking employment by race in 1954, so any statistics you are grabbing before that are anectdotal at best.

In 1954 unemployment among blacks was twice that of whites, with Pew acknowledging that the pattern likely emerged in the 40s.

In fact War on Poverty and Great Society programs of the 1960 narrowed the gap better than almost at any other time in the last 50 years and the two largest spikes in the gap can be seen in the early 70s (Nixon/Ford) and 1983 (Reagan). As recent as 2011 the gap was a much smaller.

Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites

Nice try though.
Here's something you don't understand. White people in the South may have denied blacks from high-paying jobs, but they had to hire them for agricultural jobs as they didn't want to do them. The reason That a lot of blacks left the labor force under LBJ was because they got more in welfare benefits than they did from their low wage jobs. LBJ figured out a way to get blacks dependent on the government and get their votes at the same time.
 

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Holy crap you really are going to send me a link to a conservative blog to repudiate a report by Pew Research?

Yup, we're done here. Troll on.
The author is black btw. Also, the labor force participation rate (a more accurate assessment of true unemployment) is recorded before 1954. The unemployment rate does not count people who have been out of work more than six months.
 
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Just for the hell of it, here's how we'd stack up in the rankings with the entire current Big 12 if they invited us to join:

56. Texas
[60. UConn]
71. Baylor
82. TCU
111. Iowa State
111. Oklahoma
118. Kansas
135. Kansas State
152. Oklahoma State
176. Texas Tech
183. West Virginia

Big 10:

12. Northwestern
27. Michigan
44. Illinois
44. Wisconsin
50. Penn State
54. Ohio State
[60. UConn]
60. Maryland
60. Purdue
70. Rutgers
71. Minnesota
82. Iowa
82. Michigan State
86. Indiana
111. Nebraska

ACC:

8. Duke
15. Notre Dame
24. Virginia
27. Wake Forest
30. North Carolina
31. Boston College
34. Georgia Tech
44. Miami
[60. UConn]
60. Syracuse
66. Clemson
68. Pitt
74. Virginia Tech
92. Florida State
92. N.C. State
. . .
171. Louisville

Assorted others:

129. Colorado State
159. USF
176. UCF
194. Houston
. . .
. . .
(Rank Not Published). Memphis
 

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Would be interesting to take a poll of black boneyarders and ask if they would have rather lived from 1890-1950 or today. I think I can guess the result.
That's not the point. The point is simply that they were more likely to be working than someone who was white.
 
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