Tagged: Center for Economic and Policy Research

What’s Driving the Significantly Low Employment Rate Among Black Men?

In 2025, 79.3 percent of prime age (25 to 54 years old) Black men were employed. This is roughly 8 to 9 percentage points less than the employment rates of similarly aged Hispanic men (87.2 percent), White men (87.4 percent), and Asian men (88.8 percent).

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