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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 ...
Black women are 2½ times more likely to die of maternal causes than white women and this rate increases to 3 times when compared to Hispanic Americans. [35] The infant mortality rate for Black Americans is 11 per 1,000 births which is higher than the US average of 5.7.
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 ...
In July, the unemployment rate for White workers was 3.8% (versus 6.3% for Black workers). “In recent years, that last two years or so, we’ve seen that (Black-White wage gap) is trending down ...
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.
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.
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
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 ...