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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 ...
Black unemployment: Record low set in 2023 under Biden. The record low for the Black or African American unemployment rate, 4.8%, was set under Biden in April 2023. That beat the Trump-era low ...
The Black unemployment rate rose to 6.0%. The U.S. Black unemployment rate hit a 10-month high in June, driven in large part by Black workers leaving the labor market, a development some ...
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.
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the wage gap has fluctuated in terms of the ratio between black and white wages: 67.7 percent in 2000, 64.0 percent in 2005, 67.5 percent in 2008, and 64.5 percent in 2009. [16] The absolute difference in black and white wages, however, has decreased over this period. [16]
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.
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 ...