The jobless rate for Black Americans has hit the lowest level since February 2020, but it is still 3 percentage points higher than that of white workers.
WASHINGTON — The pandemic recession hit some groups much harder than others, but those differences are slowly fading away. As of November, the unemployment rate for Black people, and for women, had fallen back to more “normal” levels and the gap had narrowed compared with more privileged groups.
Historically, the unemployment rate for Black people has been about twice that of white people, but that changed during the later stages of the recovery from the Great Recession of 2008, as the economy crept closer to full employment and more Black job seekers found employment. The latest figures show that some of the gains made by Black people in the labor market in those days have persisted even through the pandemic.
By August of this year, the Black participation rate had caught up with the rate for white Americans, but it has fallen behind again in recent months. Around 91,000 Black women exited the labor force in November.
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