New York City’s unemployment gap between Black and white workers is now the largest it’s been in this century.
, the total number still hasn't reached pre-pandemic levels, the CUF found. Duane Reade, for example, shuttered 64 stores in the city in 2020, and another 22 last year.
“It worries me that this important sector may not get back to the level that it was prior to the pandemic,” Bowles said. “These jobs are important for many New Yorkers that are not able to access the higher-wage jobs that are actually growing right now in the city's economy,” Bowles said.New York City’s growing Black-white unemployment gap is now the largest it’s been in this century, according to a recentfrom the New School's Center for New York City Affairs. In the first quarter of this year, 1.3% of non-Latino white workers were unemployed, compared to 12.2% of non-Latino Black workers.
Just 22% of Latino, 28% of Black, and 45% of Asian New Yorkers hold a bachelor’s degree, compared to 62% of white residents, according to a 2021 CUFAccording to the CUF's newest report, 1 in 5 retail workers in the city is younger than 25, and 70% are Black, Latino or Asian. An even greater share live in the outer boroughs.
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