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Job changes in the US

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Black workers are struggling to find employment in the US despite ample evidence gaps, and the unemployment rate has skyrocketed over the past month even though they have fallen into other categories.

The crisis has forced economists to question whether the progress made by African-American workers in the labor market before the Covid-19 crisis could be addressed – or whether historical differences continue.

In August the growing unemployment rate for black Americans began 8.8 even a similar percentage of US workers overall has dropped to 5.2 percent, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports last week.

Restaurants, owners and owners of antiquities reserves said for several months they could not ask enough workers to make better use of the growing economy in early summer. Workers’ salaries have skyrocketed, and fellow writers pay them higher encouraging such as signing bonuses and car offers to attract new jobs.

But while more than 287,000 black Americans either joined last month or started looking for work, few found a job, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. By comparison, the U.S. white supremacist class collapsed in August, but those who worked increased by 269,000.

“You have black people watching [‘help wanted’] signs, hearing businesses complaining that they can’t find anyone, are rushing to find a job but can’t find one, “said William Spriggs, chief financial officer of the federation AFL-CIO and an official in Obama’s office.” we don’t want to look, ‘and the few who are looking have found a job. ”

Evelyn Hall, a New York-based television producer, was one of the few black people who struggled to find work. Although he worked part-time on a few-year contract last year, he remained inactive in August.

“I have a problem here,” Hall said.

Hall got a part-time job in early September, but it gives him a few hours that he now needs a second job to help him with his work. They have not found anything yet.

Some economists say the hardships faced by black Americans recently at work were due to their stand on the job, while many businesses were tired of the epidemic. Vacation and hospitality employers did not add new jobs in August, when retailers dropped 28,500 jobs while Delta coronavirus filed Covid-19 cases.

Spriggs pointed to bias. The leisure and hospitality businesses also employ the largest Latino population, but the group’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.4% last month.

The report also found that black Americans with university degrees did not work at a higher rate than those leaving white schools, Spriggs added.

“Employers are making the right choices and choices,” Spriggs said. “It doesn’t mean they can’t find anyone, it means they can’t find people they would like to find.”

The high unemployment rate for black Americans has been almost constant higher more than any other group since the government began measuring it in 1972. The differences widened after the 2008 financial crisis, and double-digit unemployment persistence over the years.

But as the epidemic drew to a close, the gap began to fade as the US economy approached employment, which saw an increase in unemployment in 2019.

Since the epidemic, the unemployment rate for black unemployment has declined sharply from a peak of 16.7% in April 2020. In July it dropped by 1% to 8.2%, before jumping to 0.6% -point in August.

Overall, the 7.9 percent decline in black unemployment rates since April 2020 has been the lowest compared to the 9.6 percent decline for whites, whose unemployment rate was 4.5% in August.

Most monthly payments are unchanged, and recent developments are subject to change. Last week useless claims in the US it came down to the crisis season, the labor department said Thursday.

Jay Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said he was looking at diversity in the workplace when making decisions. Civil rights activists have said this about what President Joe Biden did $ 3.5tn cash in total negotiations now before Congress helped create opportunities for disadvantaged workers.

But the employment report in August also raised economic concerns with a return to the two-employee market following the 2008 crisis.

“If we have this kind of repetitive, unstable, uncoordinated, that if we can’t go to a solid place, the people who will take the money not only and the profits lost will be black workers,” said Nick Bunker, a career economist.