Unemployed African Americans – Less likely to give up job search

Relative to whites, a higher share of jobless blacks have continued to seek work—which means they have remained in the labor force and therefore been counted as unemployed. This is reflected in the fact that the percentage of blacks in the labor force (employed or actively seeking work) has fallen by less than the comparable figure for whites (a 2.8 percentage-point decline versus a 3.3 percentage-point fall). Put simply, the resilience of African American labor force participation is actually contributing to the growing black–white unemployment rate gap.

via Resilience of Black Labor Force Participation: Unemployed African Americans Are Less Likely to Give Up Job Search | Economic Policy Institute.