Half of the retail and food service workers that preempted fair scheduling laws in Atlanta would protect are Black: Demographics of nonmanagerial retail and food service workers in Georgia and Atlanta
| Georgia | Atlanta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workers | Share | Workers | Share | |||
| All | 750,926 | 100.0% | 28,991 | 100.0% | ||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| White | 374,454 | 49.9% | 11,050 | 38.1% | ||
| Black | 255,405 | 34.0% | 14,627 | 50.5% | ||
| Latinx | 69,077 | 9.2% | 1,938 | 6.7% | ||
| AAPI/other | 51,990 | 6.9% | 1,376 | 4.7% | ||
| Gender | ||||||
| Men | 354,720 | 47.2% | 14,127 | 48.7% | ||
| Women | 396,206 | 52.8% | 14,864 | 51.3% | ||
Source: EPI analysis of five-year 2018 American Community Survey microdata.