While unemployment has skyrocketed for everyone in the coronavirus labor market, the unemployment rate is higher and rose faster for Latinx workers: Unemployment rates for Latinx and white workers, by gender, February--June 2020
February | March | April | May | June | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
White workers | 3.1% | 4.0% | 14.2% | 12.4% | 10.1% |
Latinx workers | 4.4% | 6.0% | 18.9% | 17.6% | 14.5% |
White men | 2.9% | 3.7% | 12.4% | 10.7% | 9% |
White women | 2.8% | 3.6% | 15% | 13.1% | 10.3% |
Latinx men | 3.2% | 5.1% | 16.7% | 15.1% | 12.8% |
Latinx women | 4.9% | 6.0% | 20.2% | 19.0% | 15.3% |
Notes: Workers, ages 16 and over, for aggregate totals (white workers; Latinx workers). Workers, ages 20 and over, for results disaggregated by gender. The race and ethnic categories are not mutually exclusive; therefore, white may include Latinx workers and persons whose ethnicity is identified as Latinx may be of any race.