In this video, Algernon Austin, EPI research associate, analyzes Native American employment and unemployment. He finds that although Native American unemployment remains at crisis levels four years after the supposed end to the Great Recession, there is great promise to increase employment of Native Americans with policy interventions including increasing technical education and investing in infrastructure.

EPI work on Native Americans and the economy

• Racial and ethnic disparities in the United States: An interactive chartbook

  June 15, 2022 Report

• The power of self-determination in building sustainable economies in Indian Country

  June 15, 2022 By Patrice H. Kunesh Report

• Guiding principles for anti-racist research, the ‘bodycam’ for racial economic injustice

  June 15, 2022 By Valerie Wilson Report

• Advancing anti-racist economic research and policy: Perspectives and resources on race, ethnicity, and the economy

  June 15, 2022 By Valerie Wilson, Adewale A. Maye, Trevon D. Logan, Kyle K. Moore, Angela Lang, Janelle Wong, Francisca Antman, and Patrice H. Kunesh Report

• Native Americans and Jobs

  April 1, 2014

• Native Americans and Jobs: The Challenge and the Promise

  December 17, 2013 By Algernon Austin Report

• High Unemployment Means Native Americans Are Still Waiting for an Economic Recovery

  December 17, 2013 By Algernon Austin Report

• Native Americans Are Less Likely to Be Employed Than Whites in Nearly Every State: The Native American-White Jobs Gap Varies by State from 32.7 Percentage Points to 5.1 Percentage Points

  November 20, 2013 By Algernon Austin Economic Snapshot

• Native Americans Are Still Waiting for an Economic Recovery

  October 29, 2013 By Algernon Austin Economic Snapshot