The African American unemployment rate averages twice the white unemployment rate, while the unemployment rate for African American teens is typically close to six times the unemployment rate for whites. It would be a big step forward if she reversed a mistake made by Bill Clinton and reaffirmed the Democratic Party's commitment to full employment. In the summer of 1944, a time when the country was still fully enmeshed in World War II, the Democratic Party told voters:"To speed victory, establish and maintain peace, guarantee full employment and provide prosperity --this is its platform." That was the year that Bill Clinton won the Democratic presidential nomination. For new Democrats, a platform plank on full employment was old-fashioned labor and union-type politics.

Source: Huffington Post June 28, 2016 01:18 UTC