Unemployment Rate for Black Chicagoans More than Double Rate for White Residents. – WTTW (Chicago)

Nationwide unemployment in August stood at 3.7%, but for Black Americans that rate was 6.4%, roughly in line with a gap that has existed for as long as the Bureau of Labor Statistics began reporting that data. And locally, the racial unemployment gap is even starker. While the overall unemployment rate for Chicago is nearly 5.8% in August, the rate for Black residents is more than twice that, at 14.3%.
3 Comments
Newest
Oldest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Mary Ladd
3 years ago

Yet according to another article posted on Wirepoints, 75% of black voters support Pritzker.

debtsor
3 years ago

“If you think about someone selling DVDs or selling socks, those are informal workers. You think about the bucket boys. Those are also informal workers,” We used to call the them vagrants, criminals and tax cheats, but like everything else these days, the defintion of ‘worker’ has changed. Also, the assumption underlying the CBO Collective’s missoin is that the community wants to work. I don’t believe this is a proper assumption to make. I have extended family members that operate in the informal economy, and use nearly all government benefits, and they very idea of working 40 hours a week… Read more »

Eugene from a pay phone
3 years ago

So does an open southern border with free transport to points North and points East help the black unemployment in any way?

SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER

Home Page Signup
First
Last
Check what you would like to receive:

FOLLOW US

 

WIREPOINTS ORIGINAL STORIES

WE’RE A NONPROFIT AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE DEDUCTIBLE.

SEARCH ALL HISTORY

CONTACT / TERMS OF USE