Black Employment in the Low Skilled Labor Market
Of the 50 million low skilled adults (those 25 years of age and over) in the civilian labor
force in 2007, black Americans accounted for about 5.6 million of such workers (or about 10
percent of the total). These black American workers, however, had the highest
unemployment rates of any of the four racial and ethnic groups for which the data was
collected. Black American adult workers without a high school diploma had an
unemployment rate of 12.0 percent, and those with only a high school diploma had an
unemployment rate of 7.3 percent in 2007. These 5.6 million low skilled black workers
accounted for one-third of the entire black labor force of slightly over 17 million workers.
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