MLK Day: Unemployment Rate by Race

In honor of MLK Day:


-Martin Luther King Jr, Where Do We Go From Here? speech, 1967, (emphasis mine)

Below is a chart of the US unemployment rate over the past 25 years, segmented by race. Despite the progress of the past 50 years (since Dr. King made the above speech), the black unemployment rate has persistently remained at nearly double the white unemployment rate.

sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bloomberg
