NATIONAL BLACK CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE FOR LIFE
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 News Release           March 28, 2011                   News Release


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

"A Cry for Jobs - Is a Cry for Life"

 

New York, New York, March 28, 2011:  “African Americans and the nation’s poor need jobs so that they can feed their families, care for their elderly, and claim their dignity as people created in the image and likeness of God,” stated Father James E. Goode, OFM,
“A Cry for Jobs – Is a Cry for Life”.  Father Goode went on to say,
“I firmly believe that if our people had jobs, there would be fewer abortions and less acts of violence in our homes and streets.”

"Now is the time for us to put forth a sincere effort to create jobs for our people and all those in need of work.  As we strive to obtain jobs, let us also renew our efforts to end abortion and all acts of violence that destroy all human life."

The Board of Consultants of the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life invites you to join the National Urban League for their Town Hall Meeting concerning jobs on Thursday, March 31, 2011, (10a.m. -12noon) at Howard University, Washington, DC. The Town Hall Meeting is only the first step. Our voices on behalf of jobs and the sacredness of life are needed.  “A Cry for Jobs- Is a Cry for Life”.

State of Black America Town Hall to Explore Jobs of the Future


Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League


Next Thursday, I invite you to join the debate about the number one issue facing the nation – the deep and persistent jobs crisis that has been especially devastating in urban communities of color.  As part of the National Urban League’s annual Legislative Policy Conference in Washington, DC, we will convene a free State of Black America town hall meeting on March 31st, from 10 am to noon at Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium.  A panel of notable policy experts, scholars and journalists will lead a public dialogue about ways to end the jobs crisis in our communities.  But the most important voices invited to this meeting belong to you – the student struggling to pay college tuition, the father who lost his job six months ago and is wondering if he will ever be able to support his family again, the single mother having to choose between child care and health care for her kids.  

The great recession has seen a loss of more than 8 million jobs.  Many of those jobs are in declining industries and may never return.  According to a recent CNN Money news report, “Home building lost nearly 1 million jobs since the start of 2008, while the auto industry shed 300,000 manufacturing jobs due to plant closings. The finance and real estate sectors lost more than 500,000 jobs.” 
Unfortunately, many of those lost jobs are never coming back.

That is why the discussion about bringing jobs back to urban America must focus on ensuring that people in our communities are educated, trained and have access to the jobs of the future.   The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that between 2008 and 2018, the industries projected to produce the largest number of new jobs are health care and social assistance, and professional and business services.   And nearly half of all new jobs created during those years will require some type of post-secondary education.  Because of high dropout rates and low college graduation rates in communities of color, it is projected that 70 percent of prime working age African American adults and 80 percent of Hispanics will lack the requisite education for almost 40 percent of projected new jobs.  

Clearly immediate action is needed to turn this picture around.  The National Urban League’s 12-point Blueprint for Quality Job Creation offers several powerful remedies, including a plan to boost minority participation in emerging Broadband and Green Industries.  We also call on Congress to reform, revise and reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act to focus on preparing and retraining workers for 21st century jobs by targeting young adults with less than college education as well as high school dropouts and older workers whose jobs were eliminated by the recession.  We must also do more to reverse troubling recent trends in minority high school dropout and college enrollment rates.
 
These are just some of the ideas that will be discussed at the March 31 town hall meeting. 
We need your input too. 
 If you can’t attend in person, the event will be webcast live at www.nul.org
beginning at 10am ET. 
You can also join the conversation on
Twitter@NatUrbanLeague using # SOBA11 or on Facebook.
 

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The National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life was inaugurated in the fall of 1997, with the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus and the
Franciscan Solid Ground Ministry as sponsors and with the support of the
late John Cardinal O'Connor, then Archbishop of New York and the Archdiocesan Office of Black Ministry - Brother Tyrone A. Davis, CFC, Executive Director.  Since then, NBCAL Affiliates
have been established throughout the United States.

 

 

NBCAL Board of Consultants

 

Most Rev. J. Terry Steib, S.V.D., DD Episcopal Advisor,
 Rev. Fr. James E. Goode, OFM, Ph.D President - NBCAL, Dr. Beverly A. Carroll
(USCCB:SCDC),
 Rev. Fr. Fred J. Briers. CR (NBCCC), Ms. Therese Wilson Favors, (NABCA), Very Rev. Glenn D. Parker, CSsR (NBCCC),
Supreme Knight
Fredron DeKarlos Blackmon (KPC), Supreme Lady Geralyn C. Shelvin (KPCLA),
Deacon Paul Richardson  Pres.(NAAACD), Rev. Monsignor Mauricio West, V.G. (NBCCC), Michael Youngblood (NAACYMN),  
Deacon Arthur L. Miller, Pres. NABCA (Ex-officio), Sister Roberta Fulton, SSMN, Pres. NBSC (Ex-officio),
Fr.  Anthony Bozeman, SSJ, Pres. NBCCC (Ex-officio)


Partnership: 

 

The Three Historical Black Catholic Communities of Religious Women:

 

The Oblate Sisters of Divine Providence, (Baltimore, MD) established in 1829

The Sisters of the Holy Family (New Orleans, LA) established in 1842

The  Franciscan Handmaids of Mary (Savannah, GA) established in 1915


 
National Black Catholic Congress


Xavier University,

            Institute for Black Catholic Studies