Black Women Job Seekers Continue to Struggle in Recovering Economy
A creeping escape from the Great Recession is bolstering job prospects in every demographic slice of the U.S. economy but one: African American women.
Adult black females in August posted an unemployment rate of 10.6 percent, the same rate that group registered in August 2013 — while during that span unemployment rates decreased for black men, white men, white women, Latino men, Latino women, and adult Asian Americans, according to the latest federal labor figures.