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A new report <\/a>from Congress’s Joint Economic Committee<\/strong> looks deep into the Labor Department data and highlights the disparity. Here are some key takeaways:<\/p>\n- \n
- The current jobless rate for blacks was 15.8% in February, compared to an overall rate of 9.7%. The broader unemployment rate — the U-6 rate that includes workers who are underemployed and discouraged — shows an even bigger gap. The U-6 rate for whites in February (not seasonally adjusted) was 17.9%, for blacks it was 24.9%.<\/li>\n
- College-educated workers with an unemployment rate of just 5% have fared better in this recession than most. But white college graduates face a 4.5% unemployment rate, while 8.2% of black college graduates are unemployed.<\/li>\n
- Black men have been hit harder than women, but female heads of household, who bear the sole financial responsibility for their families, face a 15% unemployment rate, compared to 11.6% for all women heads of household.<\/li>\n
- Young blacks have the highest unemployment rate of any demographic group. More than 2 out of 5 African American teenagers are unemployed, compared to an overall teen unemployment rate of slightly over 25%.<\/li>\n
- Long-term unemployment is an issue for the entire work force, but the problem is particularly pronounced among blacks. Although black workers make up only 11.5% of the labor force, they account for more than 20% of the long-term unemployed, and make up 22% of workers who have been unemployed for over a year. The median duration of unemployment for black workers has risen from less than 3 months before the recession began to almost six months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Blacks have always faced higher unemployment rates than whites, but the Great Recession has exacerbated that disparity across demographic lines, including gender, age and education. A new report from Congress’s Joint Economic Committee looks deep into the Labor Department data and highlights the disparity. Here are some key takeaways: The current jobless rate for blacks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}