Racial gaps in unemployment worsened by pandemic
Harshawn Ratanpal, Joey Kinard, Jack Taylor | December 18, 2022
It appears that COVID-19 exacerbated racial discrepancies in Missouri unemployment. Data from the Missouri Department of Labor suggests that the pandemic caused Black people and Asian people to, on average, represent a higher percentage of those on unemployment than they did before April of 2020. Missouri does not track unemployed rates by race; however,...