Las Vegas Nevada

Las Vegas’s Had the Highest Black metropolitan unemployment in 2011, Followed by Los Angeles

In 2011, the nationwide African American unemployment rate stood at 15.9 percent—and in several of the country’s large metropolitan areas, the black unemployment rate was significantly higher. This issue brief examines African American unemployment rates of the 19 metropolitan areas for which we could derive reliable estimates.1 The key findings of this brief are: In … Continue reading →