Joblessness
The jobless rate for Blacks drops
By Frederick H. Lowe  The jobless rate for Blacks dropped, but not far enough to catch up with other ethnic groups. The August jobless rate for Black men fell to 5.0 percent compared to the seasonally adjusted average in August 2022 to 6.0 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate…
Read MoreThe Black male jobless rate jumped around in the last month but it doesn’t catch up with others
The unemployment for Black men bounced around in the last two months. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobless rate for black men was 5.3 percent in July compared with 5.9 in June. The year-over-jobless rate for black men was 5.6 percent. Black men are still trail Whites, whose unemployment rate was 3.0…
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