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Title: Closing Latino Labor Market Gap Requires Targeted Policies To End Discrimination
Citation Type: Newspaper Article
Publication Year: 2020
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DOI: 10.1186/S40176-018-0127-5
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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown labor markets into a tailspin. The overall U.S. unemployment rate reached an all-time recorded high of 14.7 percent in April 2020, and weekly claims for unemployment insurance peaked at 6.2 million—nearly six times higher than any pre-pandemic level since data were first recorded.1 Prior to the onset of this coronavirus-generated recession, the narrative around the American economy would suggest that workers were enjoying some of the lowest unemployment rates of all times. But this aggregation hid a bleak reality of inequality in the United States: Labor market conditions for Latino workers consistently lag behind those of their non-Hispanic white counterparts. This trend, which has held since 1976 when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) first started tracking employment data by ethnicity, reveals that the Latino unemployment rate has generally remained between 1.6 and 1.9 times higher than the non-Hispanic white unemployment rate, and it has never dropped below a ratio of 1.2.2
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Authors: Zamarripa, Ryan
Publication Name: Center for American Progress
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Publication Date: Oct. 21, 2020
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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