If you account for blacks who are ex-felons or on parole who can't get jobs, black people are much more likely to be unemployed than whites. A Western study sh

If you account for blacks who are ex-felons or on parole who can't get jobs, black people are much more likely to be unemployed than whites. A Western study shows that black people with a criminal history are half as likely to get a return call than whites with similar history in low level positions. Further, even for blacks without a criminal history,this same study shows that they are about half as likely to get a return call than whites with the same background. This doesn't even include the roughly 15% of the black population currently being held in U.S. prisons who may or may not eventually be released and find that no one will hire them. Source: UC Irvine Criminology, Law & Society C7 taught by Professor Seron Spring 2010.