Black Americans disproportionately affected by coronavirus layoffs - Business Insider

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Fewer than half of Black Americans were employed in April, highlighting how coronavirus layoffs have disproportionately affected Black communities

which has now killed more than 100,000 people in the US.

The virus has hit Black communities particularly hard because Black people are disproportionately represented in public-facing jobs that were deemed essential or they were laid off from service jobs that cannot be done from home. found that Black workers made up 17% of frontline employees but only 11.9% of the overall workforce. "Workers of color are particularly overrepresented" in industries like postal services, public transportation, warehouses, and trucking, the group found.

And Black people are dying at far higher rates from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agencythat death rates were about 92.3 per 100,000 black people and 74.3 per 100,000 Hispanic or Latino people, while the death rate among white people was about 45.2 per 100,000.

"Health differences between racial and ethnic groups are often due to economic and social conditions that are more common among some racial and ethnic minorities than whites," the CDC said. Plentiful other studies in recent years have found Black communities are disproportionately affected by structural racism including

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Reductions in employments: 62% - 51,8% Wht -10,2% 59% - 48,8% Blk -10,2% 65% - 51,3% Hisp -13,7% Actually its highlighting how corona layoffs have disproportionately affected Hispanic/Latino communities!! Train your trainees to learn how to read charts! AntifaTerrorists

Looks like the Equal Opportunity Office (EEO) has made big strides in almost being color blind! Signed HumanCapitalStock 135792468 Resister number 3

So? Certain people in all races are suffering.

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