As Obama meets black leaders on economy | Dorothy Height, Benjamin Jealous, Marc Morial, and Al Sharpton – CSMonitor.com

csmonitor.com — African-Americans are feeling more positive about the current economy than are whites, by one measure. A new poll by the Pew Research Center finds that 14 percent of blacks rate the current economy as “excellent or good.” That number is little-changed from where it stood before the recession, and well above the 7 percent of white Americans who feel that way.

The president met with four African-American leaders in a closed-to-the-press meeting on jobs and the economy: Dorothy Height of the National Council of Negro Women, Benjamin Jealous of the NAACP, Marc Morial of the National Urban League, and the Rev. Al Sharpton of National Action Network.
 Here’s a look at how African-Americans are faring in the current economy, on four fronts…

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