Chart: Black, Hispanic, and AAPI high school graduates face higher unemployment and underemployment rates: Unemployment and underemployment rates for young workers ages 18–21 with a high school degree and who are not enrolled, by race/ethnicity, March 2024

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Black, Hispanic, and AAPI high school graduates face higher unemployment and underemployment rates: Unemployment and underemployment rates for young workers ages 18–21 with a high school degree and who are not enrolled, by race/ethnicity, March 2024

	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian
Unemployment rate	9.5%	18.8%	12.0%	12.8%
Underemployment rate	18.0%	29.0%	22.6%	20.8%

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Notes: Data represent an average of the 36 months ending in March 2024. AAPI refers to Asian American and Pacific Islander. Race and ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive (i.e., white non-Hispanic, Black non-Hispanic, AAPI non-Hispanic, and Hispanic any race).

Source: EPI analysis of the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.51 (2024), https://microdata.epi.org.

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