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...appearance of the Davis and Watson book preceded a rosy report on black employment issued by the New York City office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In it, Commissioner Samuel Ehrenhalt contends that the ranks of black professionals, technicians and managers more than doubled during the 1970s, to 2.3 million. For example, Ehrenhalt claims that the number of black men with jobs like computer specialists or bank managers rose by 156%, "or roughly quadruple the 40% rise for white...
...Ehrenhalt report was quickly challenged last week by the Washington office of his own agency for faulty methodology that produced grossly misleading results. Officials asserted that he ignored a classification change made during the decade that significantly raised the number of blacks counted as managers and administrators, and hence made their progress seem more dramatic. Ehrenhalt later admitted that his figures "have a little bit of a problem," but he insists that his conclusion is accurate...
...their plight. Rudy Barker, 62, was laid off in 1980 from his job at a lumber mill in Willamina, Ore., and he has not worked since then. "All this started before Reagan," he says. "It's been coming on for the last two or three Presidents." Says Samuel Ehrenhalt, Middle Atlantic regional commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "A lot of people are just not ready to call it quits with the President...