WASHINGTON — High unemployment experienced by Black and Hispanic women throughout the pandemic will persist long after it is over unless the federal government and employers take targeted actions to bring them back into the workforce, experts are warning.
Unemployment rates for both demographic groups rose in June, and were more than one-and-a-half times what they were in February 2020, fueling concerns that the country will have a lopsided economic recovery that leaves many women of color behind.
“We’ll end up the same way we did in 2008,” C. Nicole Mason, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, said referring to the recession.
