Chart: Employment has dropped sharply in the COVID-19 labor market—Black women face the largest losses: Employment-to-population ratio by race and gender, February–April 2020

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Employment has dropped sharply in the COVID-19 labor market—Black women face the largest losses: Employment-to-population ratio by race and gender, February–April 2020

	February	March	April
All white workers	61.3%	60.2	51.8
All Black workers	59.4	57.8	48.8

White men	67.5	66.2	58.3
White women	55.4	54.5	45.5
Black men	60.7	59.6	50.5
Black women	58.4	56.2	47.4

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Note: White refers to non-Hispanic whites, Black refers to Blacks alone. The employment-to-population ratio is the share of the population who are working.

Source: EPI analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey public data.

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