"The Disappearing Black Middle Class" ran the headline over the Chicago Sun-Times story. And the statistics from the Economic Policy Institute were indeed sobering.
The U.S. Department of Labor just opened the way for Florida and other states to grab as much as $1 million in federal funds each over three years, but the state has not decided whether it will compete for the funds.
States that overhaul the way they track their workforce statistics could receive a piece of $12 million being offered as part of the Workforce Data Quality Initiative, announced by the department Monday. The initiative attempts to get states to keep better track of the data and tie it to educational statistics.
