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Offers a look at the New York job market as of March 7, 2004. Discussion of the difficulties faced by professionals who became unemployed in the late 1990s and early 2000s; Lack of a career support structure for job seekers; Rates of unemployment in the Web site development sector; Statement that some unemployed New York residents have been forced to search for employment outside their professions; Demoralization of workers who had felt entitled to high salaries and fast career growth.

Reports on the unemployment rate of black men in New York City. Reference to a study by the Community Service Society examining trends in joblessness in the city; Focus on the employment-population ratio; Factors that may have made the problem of joblessness for disadvantaged men worse including welfare reform, high rates of incarceration producing gaps in job history and competition with immigrants for low-skill jobs; Decline of labor force participation among disadvantaged me; Comments made by Mindy Tarlow of the Center for Employment Opportunities; Claim that service jobs are uninterested in hiring black men for jobs that require customer or client contact.

Discusses unemployment in New York City. Ways of computing the demographics of unemployment; Limitations of unemployment surveys, such as the absence of pertinent data and the timeliness of reports based on these surveys; Possibility that the average unemployed person in New York is male.