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Black unemployment, however, remained much higher than the overall unemployment rate of 4.4%, which in June inched up from a 16-year low. And, it was greater than the white unemployment rate ...
Immediately before the pandemic, the Black unemployment rate stood at 6.0%, double the 3.0% rate for white Americans. At the peak of the lockdowns, both numbers spiked in roughly equal measure ...
The unemployment rate for Blacks increased by 0.7 percentage point to 9.9% in February, reversing two months of improvements and widening the gap between the white unemployment rate.
Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
In 2016, the unemployment rate was 3.8% for Asians, 4.6% for non-Hispanic whites, 6.1% for Hispanics, and 9.0% for Blacks, all over the age of 16. [7] In terms of unemployment, it can be seen that there are two-tiers: relatively low unemployment for Asians and whites, relatively high unemployment for Hispanics and Blacks.
From 1968-1979, the black-white wage gap decreased by an average of 1.2 percent each year. During the 1980s, it increased an average of .24 percent each year, and in the 1990s, it decreased an average of .59 percent each year. [15] This proportional decrease was also accompanied by a decrease in the absolute difference of black and white wages ...
And the share of Black people who were employed in August, known as the employment to population ratio, reached 56.2%, up from 54.7% in January. Black unemployment setback shows Fed's challenges ...
U.S. unemployment rate and employment to population ratio (EM ratio) Wage share and employment rate in the U.S. Employment-to-population ratio, also called the employment rate, [1] is a statistical ratio that measures the proportion of a country's working age population (statistics are often given for ages 15 to 64 [2] [3]) that is employed.