Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 63, Chart 1
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings (January issues); and Labor Force Statistics derived from the Current Population Survey: A Data Book, vol. I, Bulletin 2096; and unpublished data.
Black teenagers are much more likely to be unemployed than whites. The 1995 unemployment rate for white teenage males was about 16 percent; it was 37 percent for black and 25 percent for Hispanic teenage males. High unemployment rates persisted for older black male youths, with about 18 percent of black 20- to 24-year-olds being unemployed compared with 8 percent of whites and 11 percent of Hispanics. Unemployment rates for women followed similar racial/ethnic and age patterns-higher for blacks than for whites and higher for teenagers than for those in their early 20s.
