Black youth unemployment rate of 40% similar to time of Brixton riots

Young black workers have been hit disproportionately hard during the pandemic, according to Guardian analysis, with more than 40% unemployed – three times worse than white workers of the same age. Forty years on from the Brixton riots, which spread across the UK during a recession in which black people lost their jobs in disproportionate […]

Black youth unemployment rate of 40% similar to time of Brixton riots
Young black workers have been hit disproportionately hard during the pandemic, according to Guardian analysis, with more than 40% unemployed – three times worse than white workers of the same age. Forty years on from the Brixton riots, which spread across the UK during a recession in which black people lost their jobs in disproportionate […]