THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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slightly higher than the national rate
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nearly double the national rate
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slightly lower than the national rate
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about the same as the national rate
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 2022, the unemployment rate of African Americans in the United States stood at 6.1 percent. This was over the national average of 3.6 percent.
Detailed explanation-2: -Over the last half century, black Americans have always suffered more from high unemployment. In 1963, the unemployment rate was 5.0 percent for whites but 10.9 percent, or 2.2 times the white rate, for blacks.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 2022, 6.1 percent of the Black or African-American population in the United States were unemployed, the highest unemployment rate of any ethnicity. In 2022, the national unemployment rate stood at 3.6 percent.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout this economic crisis unemployment rates were considerably higher for blacks than for whites. For example, among male workers in thirteen large cities in 1931 the rate was 31.7 percent for whites and 52 percent for blacks.