Chart: Disparities in economic recovery mean larger job shortfalls for Black and Latinx workers: Change in employment-to-population ratios for select workers by race/ethnicity and gender, February–October 2020

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Disparities in economic recovery mean larger job shortfalls for Black and Latinx workers: Change in employment-to-population ratios for select workers by race/ethnicity and gender, February–October 2020

	Employment losses
White men	-3.4
White women	-3.3
Black men	-6.1
Black women	-6.2
Latinx men	-4.9
Latinx women	-6.5

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Notes: Data are for workers ages 20 and older. Racial and ethnic categories are not mutually exclusive; white and Black data do not exclude Latinx workers of each race.

Source: EPI analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Household Data Table A-2, and Table A-3.

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