If the 1.8 million people in American prisons and jails were counted, male unemployment would increase by two percentage points.

And in some poor Catholic neighborhoods, male unemployment is 60 to 80 percent.

In both these regions, male unemployment was only 10%.

City Challenge is expected to help create up to 5,000 jobs in an area with pockets where male unemployment is up to 50 per cent.

Black male unemployment is declining (front page, May 23), and real wages are finally increasing after almost three decades of stagnation.

For instance, rates of male unemployment in the industrial city of Newcastle never dropped below 20% throughout the 1920s.

Senator Schumer described the problem of black male unemployment as "profound, persistent and perplexing."

Work is hard to find in Derry for anyone - in some areas, male unemployment is 50 percent or more.

At the beginning of the crisis, we saw that male unemployment was rising very strongly, mostly because of the problems in construction and in industry.

This was considerably lower than the rate in the Rotherham constituency of 7% and 9.6% male unemployment.