The NYTimes had an article on the recent employment report. Towards the end they had a series of 4 charts comparing the employment levels for men and women for whites, blacks, Asian-Americans, and Latinos. It was all in support of the article's points about the differential impact of the pandemic. But the charts also had the data for the numbers in the employment market. For three categories there were more men in the force than women, roughly 10-12 percent more when I eyeballed it. But for blacks there were fewer men than women. Again roughly speaking, there were about 3 million fewer black men than there should have been if the ratio were similar to those for the other groups.
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