Analysis: For decades, Black unemployment was always substantially higher than White unemployment. In recent months, it hasn't been.
Over the course of the next 50 years, 600 months of data, the Black unemployment rate was at least twice that of Whites more than three-quarters of the time. It was at least 50 percent higher in 598 of those 600 months.The exceptions came at the outset of the pandemic. In April 2020, the Black unemployment rate was only 18 percent higher than the White rate; the following month it was only 37 percent higher.
The Black unemployment rate is volatile, given that the Black population in the United States is smaller than the White population. But that it was only 1.8 points higher in March bolsters the idea that this unusually small gap captures something real.Remarkably, the Black unemployment rate is only 52 percent higher than the White rate despite how low each unemployment rate was in April.
If we compare month-by-month employment relative to April 2019, we see that the number of White Americans working plummeted in early 2020, as did employment in other racial groups. After that plunge, those jobs largely rebounded.
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