{"id":1861,"date":"2015-08-25T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biznjoy.com\/dt\/njf\/?page_id=1861"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:09:34","slug":"african-american-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/jobs-and-job-security\/african-american-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"African American Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/14\/the-labor-market-for-black-workers-is-good-but-not-quite-as-good-as-some-claim\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Labor Market for Black Workers is Good, But Not Quite as Good as Some Claim,<\/a> Austin, Counterpunch 7\/23<\/p>\n<p data-test-id=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nwlc.org\/resource\/black-womens-equal-pay-day-factsheet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It&#8217;s Time To\u00a0 Pay Black Women What They Are Owed,<\/a> Fact Sheet 9\/22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/an-economic-recovery-for-whom-black-womens-employment-gaps-show-important-differences-in-recovery-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"title-presub\">An economic recovery for whom?<\/span><\/a><span class=\"subtitle\"> Black women\u2019s employment gaps show important differences in recovery rates, EPI 2\/21<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"link-7991e037\" class=\"css-19rw7kf e1h9rw200\" data-test-id=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/25\/opinion\/race-wage-gap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Black-White Wage Gap Is as Big as It Was in 1950,<\/a> <span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Leonhardt<\/span>, NYT 6\/20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/the-avenue\/2019\/06\/26\/black-workers-are-being-left-behind-by-full-employment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Black workers are being left behind by full employment<\/a>, Perry, Brookings 6\/19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/stark-black-white-divide-in-wages-is-widening-further\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stark black\u2013white divide in wages is widening further <\/a>, Gould, EPI 2\/19<\/p>\n<p class=\"_21349 context-article\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1180670\/trumps-tweets-about-black-unemployment-miss-a-major-point\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Invisible Men: Trump\u2019s tweets about black unemployment miss a major point: incarceration<\/a>, Kopf, Quartz 1\/18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/state-unemployment-rates-by-race-and-ethnicity-at-the-end-of-2016-show-progress-but-not-yet-full-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State unemployment rates by race and ethnicity [end of 2016] show progress but not yet full recovery<\/a>, Jones, EPI 2\/17<\/p>\n<p class=\"authors\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/black-white-wage-gaps-expand-with-rising-wage-inequality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black-white wage gaps expand with rising wage inequality,<\/a><span class=\"loop-type\">\u00a0 W<\/span>ilson &amp; Rodgers, 9\/16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/unemployment-for-young-black-grads-is-still-worse-than-it-was-for-young-white-grads-in-the-aftermath-of-the-recession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unemployment for young black grads is still worse than it was for young white grads in the aftermath of the recession<\/a>, Gould &amp; Cooke, EPI 5\/16<\/p>\n<p data-pb-field=\"customFields.web_headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/02\/26\/america-has-locked-up-so-many-black-people-it-has-warped-our-sense-of-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality<\/a>, Guo, Wash. Post, 2\/16<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-dateline\">&#8220;For African American men without a high school diploma, being in prison or jail is more common than being employed&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russellsage.org\/publications\/invisible-men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Becky Pettit, <em>Invisible Men<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/28\/sunday-review\/how-prisoners-make-data-look-good.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;How Prisoners Make Us Look Good,&#8221;<\/a> <span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"SAM ROBERTS\" data-twitter-handle=\"samrob12\">Roberts\u00a0 NYT 10\/<\/span><a title=\"More Articles by SAM ROBERTS\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/sam_roberts\/index.html\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"SAM ROBERTS\" data-twitter-handle=\"samrob12\">1<\/span><\/a><\/span><time class=\"dateline\" datetime=\"2012-10-27\">2<\/time><\/p>\n<p>Unemployment rates, Men https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?graph_id=549500<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe style=\"overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/graph-landing.php?g=nj2v&amp;width=670&amp;height=475\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/js\/embed.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p>For African American teens the ratio is typically six to one. This means that&#8230; letting the unemployment rate fall as low as possible is likely to have large payoffs for African Americans, especially for young people&#8230;. 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.&#8221; Dean Baker, Ctr for Economic &amp; Policy Research 6\/15<\/p>\n<p>Labor Force Participation Rate Men 20 and over, both races <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=nj3h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=nj3h<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe style=\"overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/graph-landing.php?g=nj3h&amp;width=670&amp;height=475\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/js\/embed.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-cover-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-cover-content\">\n<p class=\"dek\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/02\/poor-black-boys-unemployed-men\/459573\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unemployment: The All-but-Certain Fate of Too Many Poor Black Boys<\/a>: consequences tend to persist White, Atlantic, 2\/16<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/young-black-high-school-grads-face-astonishing-underemployment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Black High School Grads Face Astonishing Underemployment<\/a>, Davis, EPI 6\/15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/projected-decline-in-unemployment-in-2015-wont-lift-blacks-out-of-the-recession-carved-crater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Projected Decline in Unemployment in 2015 Won&#8217;t Lift Blacks Out of the Recession-carved Crater<\/a>, Wilson, EPI 3\/15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/the-impact-of-full-employment-on-african-american-employment-and-wages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Impact of Full Employment on African American Employment and Wage<\/a>s, Wilson, EPI, 3\/15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/blkmunemp16-19\/\">Unemployment rates of young black men [age 16 to 19] 1972 to April 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlouisfed.org\/itv\/itb-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Didn&#8217;t Higher Education Protect Hispanic and Black Wealth?<\/a> Emmons &amp; Noeth, FR<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.net\/report\/a-college-degree-is-no-guarantee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A College Degree is No Guarantee<\/a>: Labor-Market Outcomes for Black Recent College Grads CEPR 5\/14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cepr.net\/do-fugitives-answer-government-surveys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Likely underestimate of <span id=\"t-t\">unemployment of young black men<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/minority-workers-suffered-29-6-percent-drop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Displaced Minority Workers Suffered 29.6 Percent Drop in Wages from the Growing Trade Deficit with China, <\/a>Scott, EPI 10\/13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellsage.org\/blog\/how-incarceration-data-affects-employment-figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Incarceration Data Affects Employment Figures<\/a> 9\/12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/andy-kroll-the-60-year-unemployment-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What We Don&#8217;t Talk About When We Talk About Jobs<\/a>: How Racism, Global Economics, and the New Jim Crow Fuel Black America&#8217;s Crippling Jobs Crisis, Kroll 7\/11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/11\/job-hunt-college-degree-racial-gap-michael-luo-ny-times\/\">In Job Hunt, College Degree Can&#8217;t Close Racial Gap<\/a>, Luo, NYT, 11\/09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/study-finds-that-labor-department-overstates-share-of-working-americans-by-14-percentage-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Study Finds that Labor Department Overstates Share of Working Americans <\/a>By 1.4 Percentage Points 2\/06 &#8220;&#8230;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/do-fugitives-answer-government-surveys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dean Baker on these surveys: Do Fugitives Answer Government Surveys? <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackdemographics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Demographics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Market for Black Workers is Good, But Not Quite as Good as Some Claim, Austin, Counterpunch 7\/23 It&#8217;s Time To\u00a0 Pay Black Women What They Are Owed, Fact Sheet 9\/22 An economic recovery for whom? Black women\u2019s employment gaps show important differences in recovery rates, EPI 2\/21 The Black-White Wage Gap Is as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/jobs-and-job-security\/african-american-unemployment\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">African American Unemployment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13358,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1861\/revisions\/13358"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}