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...recent rate of progress be sustained for the next twenty years? And could it be accelerated to move Negroes more quickly toward economic equality...
TABLE 2 Nonwhite Employment Situation in 1985: Projections and Goals (numbers in thousands) Continued Present Progress* Full Economic Equality Nonwhite Employed Persons Nonwhite as percent of total Nonwhite Employed Persons Nonwhite as percent of total OCCUPATION GROUP Number Percent Number Percent All employed persons 12,590 100.0 12.0 12,630 100.0 12.0 White-collar workers 4,190 33.3 7.8 6,420 50.9 12.0 Professional & technical workers 1,850 14.7 10.6 2,100 16.7 12.0 Manager, officials & proprietors 420 3.3 3.8 1,330 10.5 12.0 Clerical 1,510 12.0 8.4 2,160 17.1 12.0 Sales...
...other attractive job categories, the present rate of progress would leave Negroes very far from equality. By 1985, only 3.8 percent of all managers and proprietors would be nonwhite. That is just 420,000 people, compared to an equality target figure of 1.33 million...
...fully equip Negroes to compete for the jobs they would reach with continued present progress, 68.0 percent of all Negroes should be high school graduates by 1985; 14.7 percent should be college graduates. (see Table 4). To equip Negroes for full economic equality, 74.9 percent should be high school graduates, 16.7 percent college graduates. To be sure, these figures assume that every Negro must have the median education for his job. Some will be able to hold the better jobs without the appropriate diploma. But the education of whites is increasing rapidly as well, and will not fall far short...
TABLE 4 Education of Nonwhites Required to Fully Equip Them for the Jobs of 1985 Needed in 1985 for continued present progress Needed in 1985 for full economic equality College completed 14.7% 16.7% High school completed 68.0% 74.9% Less than 4 years of high school...