Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: May 2020 Report Edition
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As the overall unemployment rate declined to 13.3%, this was led by a decline in white unemployment from 14.2% to 12.4%. Meanwhile, Black unemployment increased slightly from 16.7% to 16.8% and Hispanic unemployment declined from a historic high of 18.9% to 17.6%.
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The unemployment rate declined for all education levels, while maintaining higher rates of unemployment for less educated groups.
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Employment across sectors began to rebound in May, and growth was led by leisure and hospitality after this industry lost nearly half of all employment in the prior month.
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The proportion of unemployed workers who were on temporary layoff declined in May, while permanent job losers, re-entrants, and new entrants to the labor force all increased.
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After the most extreme decline in employment levels in history in April, the prime-age employment rate moved upward in May to 71.4%
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