Bar chart showing that Black workers experience higher unemployment rates than white workers regardless of important demographic factors such as gender, educational attainment, and age. For example, 5.6 percent of working Black men were unemployed in October 2019, compared with 3.3 percent of white men.
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Notes: Data for "all workers," "men," "women," and workers ages 16 to 19 are seasonally adjusted. Otherwise, the data are 12-month averages and are not seasonally adjusted. The unemployment rate for each subpopulation is the share of workers who are out of a job and looking for work.