look at the latino unemployment rate. it's higher than the white rate. s higher than latino rate. to suggest that there are not disparities that affect the latino community and affect the native american community and the african-american community, we need to have the discussion jim webb wants to have with facts. real facts that give a picture of how life is. >> 41 cents of every dollar this government spends in fiscal 2010 goes to pay debt of borrowed money. 41 cents of every dollar. we have a $3.5 trillion 2010 budget. let's look at that 34 billion for extension. these people need help. but to think that this administration and in timothy geithner's interview he talks about getting fiscal house in order in a $3.5 trillion budget they can't come up with a way to offset 40 billion in spending. at the end game in the country is broke, everybody loses. >> we'll take break here. there aren't many of us who use a cellphone just to make phone calls. but when at&t or verizon offer you an unlimited plan for $69.99, that's all it's good for -- phone calls. with

black caucus, to hire young people for the summer, you are looking at an unemployment rate of over 40% for african-american and latino young people whereas the national average is probably 25% to 29%. so, race a factor in all of our lives. it is systemic and institutional and one has to understand that while individual relations and interactions -- some people may be fine, we still have to have major discourse about these huge economic inequalities that exist disproportionately in the african-american community. host: moving on to the economy and how it affects particularly african-americans. we just finished a 45-minute discussion with our audience about the state of the economy. yesterday then burning key told the senators -- and he will repeat the message on the house side -- the economic outlook is unusually uncertain. here are some statistics. the june unemployment rate is somewhere in the vicinity of 9% nationally -- actually 10% nationally. when you break it down racially, whites are affected 8.6% and blacks double that. you also mentioned how it particularly affects young people. let us look at the unemployme

national unemployment rate is about 9.5%, way too high, it is close to 16%, 17% in the black and latin oove communities. for young people, the national average is 25% but for black and latino youth, it is 40%, unacceptable for anyone. for many months, the congressional black caucus continues to be focused on stimulating the economy and creating jobs, especially for the chronically unemployed. we have sought to engage the obama administration, house and senate leadership, committee chairs to develop a legislative strategy to address the needs of millions of americans who are struggling in this tough economic environment. the house of representatives has passed a series of bills that would move our economy from recession to recovery. however, senate republicans have consistently and stymied passing similar measures. 40 out of 41 republican senators voted to block extending unemployment benefits to 1.2 million americans. there were enough votes in the united states senate to pass this measure, which was followed the next day by house of representatives approving a similar measure once again. but for several months and weeks, the republican senators presented congress -- preve