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Message: <blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4843298" data-attributes="member: 66082">[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-racial-disparities-in-employment/[/URL]Black workers are twice as likely to be unemployed as white workers overall (6.4% vs. 3.1%). Even black workers with a college degree are more likely to be unemployed than similarly educated white workers (3.5% vs. 2.2%). When they are employed, black workers with a college or advanced degree are more likely than their white counterparts to be underemployed when it comes to their skill level—almost 40% are in a job that typically does not require a college degree, compared with 31% of white college grads. This relatively high black unemployment and skills-based underemployment suggests that racial discrimination remains a failure of an otherwise tight labor market.</blockquote>