The August 2021 jobs report showed that Black unemployment rose last month compared with declines for white, Asian and Hispanic workers.
That increase is even more troubling since the labor force participation rate among Black workers rose last month and is tied with the white rate at 61.6%.
But the rate of unemployment among Black workers rose in August to 8.8% from 8.2% in July. The white unemployment rate, meanwhile, fell to 4.5% from 4.8% and the Asian unemployment rate dropped to 4.6% from 5.3%.A majority of economists andof the Covid-19 delta variant for sluggish overall job numbers. Experts have also pointed to a retreat in consumer confidence for the slowdown in hiring.
Employers are the problem, said AFL-CIO chief economist William Spriggs, former chair of Howard University's economics department. He noted that, in August, the unemployment rate among Black workers with associate degrees exceeded that of white high school dropouts. The unemployment rate across all races for people without high school diplomas who are 25 and over was 7%, while the jobless rate for Black people with high school diplomas in the same age category was 10%.
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