Re: [Pen-l] Unemployment rates of blacks vs. whites

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Lear wrote:
> I've seen some mention of female unemployment rates, but nothing
> during this downturn of how black/white rates compare, and would be
> interested to see this, especially broken down by age.  Anyone have
> this?

U.S. BLS seasonally adjusted data
from http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm

PR = 	Participation rate (participation in labor force/population)
EPR =      Employment-population ratio
UR  =        Official Unemployment Rate

	           WHITE			|   BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN		
                  PR     EPR      UR  |      PR      EPR      UR
4/2008	66.2	  63.3	4.4	|    64.0	58.4	     8.8
12/2008	66.0	  61.7	6.6	|    63.4	55.9	   11.9
1/2009	65.9	  61.3	6.9	|   63.4	55.4	   12.6
2/2009	66.0	  61.2	7.3	I   63.0	54.6	   13.4
3/2009	66.0	  60.8	7.9	|    62.4	54.1	   13.3
4/2009	66.2	  60.9	8.0	|    63.3	53.8	   15.0

for the same dates, ratios (Black of African American)/(White)		

                  PR	         EPR	UR
4/2009     96.7%	92.3%	200.0%
12/2009   96.1%	90.6%	180.3%
1/2009     96.2%	90.4%	182.6%
2/2009     95.5%	89.2%	183.6%
3/2009     94.5%	89.0%	168.4%
4/2009     95.6%	88.3%	187.5%

Interestingly, the Black unemployment rate (though rising steeply) is
falling relative to the White unemployment rate. But that's likely
because of the fall of the participation rate and the employment
population ratio.
-- 
Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine
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