Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.

For Black women, 20 years and older, the unemployment rate during July was 6.3%, according to the bureau’s July report. This ...

Women have been hit hardest, with more than 300,000 Black women losing their jobs in the first half of the year.

Just like the workers on his construction projects, Donald Trump wrote the Black community a bad check during the campaign,” ...

The Black unemployment rate hit its highest mark since December 2021, while the White House defended the firing of Erika ...

The nation’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.6 percent in April, the lowest level since December 1969. But for black folks, the jobless rate was 6.7 percent, 86 percent higher.

The jobless rate for Black Americans in August stood at 5.3%, barely a change from the July rate of 5.8% but lower than the unemployment rate for Blacks a year ago (6.4%).

On at least three occasions in January, President Donald Trump has tweeted the truth. He’s right to point out December’s black unemployment rate of 6.8% is the lowest level recorded since U.S ...

The unemployment rate for Black workers peaked at 16.8% in 2020, higher than the overall unemployment rate's April 2020 high of 14.7%. Hispanic Americans saw their unemployment rate drop to 4.5% ...

Fast-forwarding to these months of the pandemic recovery since April, the unemployment rate for white high school dropouts has been below that of Black people who have associate’s degrees. Only ...

The black unemployment rate has remained twice that of the white jobless rate for more than 50 years. This is even the case for blacks and whites with similar educational backgrounds.