Black workers saw their unemployment rate rise to 6.4% from February’s rate of 5.6%. For Black women, this figure spiked to 5.6% from 4.4%.
The unemployment rate for Black workers rose to 6.4% last month from 5.6% in February, even as the overall jobless rate inched lower to 3.8%.
Black unemployment rose to 6.4% last month, up from 5.6% in February. That's higher than the overall unemployment rate, whichWhen accounting for gender, the unemployment rate for Black women aged 20 or older spiked to 5.6%, a big increase from the 4.4% rate in February. Black men's jobless rates climbed slightly higher to 6.2% from 6.1%.
While March's increase was primarily driven by the surge among Black women, Gould noted that in the past four months the unemployment rates for both sexes has risen. However, she also cautioned that monthly data for demographic groups can be very volatile by nature.
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