The BLS began collecting unemployment data by race in 1972. Since then, the lowest Black unemployment rate ever recorded was in 2023. The second lowest was in 2022.
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Are unemployment rates age adjusted? ie are we talking about groups with similar age ranges when we compare white and black rates?
this has to be in part due to less lead in urban areas...
But Black voters are migrating toward Trump because "the economy."
Propaganda is powerful beyond belief.
A rising tide lifts all boats, but if you want to have a useful number to tell you if things are really better for blacks, you should probably look at a statistic that shows relative unemployment of whites and blacks after taking into account sex, age, location, education (including major if college graduate), and criminal record.
"including major if college graduate". Sheesh, you're working hard to throw shade on this. It is true that if other variables like age, sex, etc were included we would know even more -duh! , but I think the high level fact that black unemployment is historically low is meaningful all by itself. I wonder,if the unemployment rate among blacks were going up as much was it has come down you would you pushing the same reservations ?
I got a chuckle by reading this post and then reading Buddha's "Happiness never decreases by being shared" quote in the website header. That means we've known this for 25 centuries, which is roughly 100 generations. It's time for a generation that allows it to sink in.
I see where Mr. Drum is going. The job market is good. No excuses. And yet...
Despite accounting for only 14% of the U.S. population, Black people account for 60% of those killed by firearm homicide each year. On average, Black people are over 11.5 times more likely to be victims of firearm homicide than their non-Hispanic white peers.
https://www.bradyunited.org/fact-sheets/disproportionate-impact-gun-violence-black-americans
If only they would stop shooting at each other. At that KC superbowl parade, "12 people brandished firearms in the shooting and at least six of them fired shots."
This is not an economic problem. It's a character problem. They hate each other!
Wanna see a character problem? Look in the mirror.
Sure.
If you are breaking out black unemployment rate them surely the question should be how it compares with the white unemployment rate. If you do that comparison you must include confounding factors.