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The supplemental figure for Black individual poverty spiked to 17.2% in 2022 after the expiry of pandemic relief initiatives that had lowered the figure in 2020 and 2021. For more CNN news and ...
In 2021, the incoming Biden administration signaled a focus on the Black unemployment rate as a way to measure progress in the labor market. But one year later, the gap between Black and white job ...
The White House press secretary also highlighted that since taking office in January 2021, the Black unemployment rate dropped from 9.2% to 5.9%.
In recent decades, Asians had the lowest unemployment rate as a racial group, followed by whites, Hispanics, and blacks. [100] The New York Times reported some of the causes and consequences of higher black unemployment in February 2018: "Even at the low of 6.8 percent recorded in December [2017] — it climbed back to 7.7 percent in January ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Attaining its goal of maximum employment has always been a tall order for the Federal Reserve but broadening the scope of that objective to one that is also "broad and inclusive" has made the task ...