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.

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

View the underlying data on epi.org.