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achelor’s degree had a 7.1 percent jobless rate in 2011, while the white
rate was 3.9 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Similarly, black workers with only a high school education had a
jobless rate of 15.5 percent, while similarly educated white workers had an
unemployment rate of 8.4 percent.
Black workers in computer and mathematical occupations — which
job-training officials say are hard to fill — had an 8.1 percent jobless rate
last year, while for whites the rate was 4.1 percent. Among construction
workers, who were hard hit by the recession, the black jobless rate was
30.4 percent, compared with 15.3 percent for whites.
“The 2-to-1 gap in the unemployment rate is one of the most
pronounced signs of the presence of discrimination in our society,” said
William A. Darity, a professor at Duke University. “That disparity, I think,
is an index of discrimination.”
A 2009 study published in the Journal of Labor Economics,
supported that point. After examining more than two years of personnel
data from a large retail chain, researchers found that white, Hispanic and
Asian managers tend to hire fewer blacks and more whites than did black
managers.
In addition, racial audit tests of employers consistently find that when
identically credentialed people apply for jobs, whites are much more likely
to be contacted for an interview and hired.
Keith A. Owens, 54, has been looking for work since losing his job
last year as communications director for the Wayne County treasurer’s
office in Michigan. A former award-winning journalist, he has applied for
“40 or 50 or 60 jobs” with no luck. He has managed to scrape by playing
guitar with a band and working with his wife’s firm, Writing It Right for
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