The latest official unemployment rate for the United States is 3.9%. But that does not mean that is the unemployment rate for all groups. It is much higher for teens (16-19) and for minorities. The charts above, using information from the Economic Policy Institute, shows that the unemployment rate for Blacks in the United States is 2.2 times higher than the rate for White, and for Hispanics it is 1.5 times higher than the rate for Whites.
These charts show the states where the unemployment rate ratio is as high or higher than the average for the country. And there could even be more states, since the EPI did not have a large enough sample in some states to establish a statistically significant ratio, One thing that is for sure though is that for every state with a large enough sample, minorities have a higher unemployment percentage than Whites (even those states falling below the national average).
This tells us two things:
1. Racism is alive and well in the United States.
2. One of the ways that racism shows itself in in economic unfairness.
