AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT
Source: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?graph_id=243772 [not seasonally adjusted]
" The unemployment rate for African Americans is consistently twice as high as the unemployment rate for whites. This means that a drop in the unemployment rate for whites of one percentage point would likely be associated with a drop of two percentage points in the unemployment rate for African Americans.
For African American teens the ratio is typically six to one. This means that... letting the unemployment rate fall as low as possible is likely to have large payoffs for African Americans, especially for young people.... This may not eliminate the gap in status between whites and African Americans, but a commitment to a full employment policy may go a substantial distance in that direction." Dean Baker 6/15
Young
Black High School Grads Face Astonishing Underemployment,
Davis, EPI 6/15
Projected Decline in Unemployment in 2015 Won’t Lift Blacks Out of the Recession-carved Crater, Wilson, EPI 3/15
The
Impact of Full Employment on African American Employment and Wages, Wilson, EPI, 3/15
Unemployment rates of young
black men [age 16 to 19] 1972 to April 2015
A
College Degree is No Guarantee: Labor-Market Outcomes for
Black Recent College Grads CEPR 5/14
Likely
underestimate of unemployment of young black men
Employment
Crisis Worsens for Black Women during the Recovery, NWLC 8/11
In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t
Close Racial Gap, Luo, NYT, 11/09
Study
Finds that Labor Department Overstates Share of Working Americans
By 1.4 Percentage Points 2/06 "...the CPS overstates employment
rates for blacks by about 2 percentage points, with the gap for
younger black men as high as 8 percentage points. The CPS also appears
to be overstating employment rates of younger Hispanic women by
about the same margin, and younger Hispanic men by 3 to 6 percentage
points." See also Dean
Baker on these surveys.
Black Demographics
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