Unemployment Rate Differences Between Races in the US
Introduction The average rate of unemployment in the United States of America is 4.8 percent. That is the average since the year 1948 to 2015. In May 2015, the rate of unemployment was 5.5 percent. The statistics mean that up to 8.7 million persons in the United States are out of jobs (Western & Pager, 2012). It would be assumed that this rate of unemployment would reflect equally among the different ethnic groups in the United States. However, this is far from the truth. Statistics shows that the gap in the unemployment rate between the whites and blacks in ...
