Black unemployment is near an all-time low, but that only tells part of the story.
One in every five working-age black men in the United States did not work at all in 2016, nor earn any income.
"It's staggering that this level of black men are disconnected from the workforce," says Janelle Jones, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute who co-authored a recently published, wide-ranging report on hours worked by all workers ages 25 to 54. EPI is a left-leaning research group.
1 in 5 black men did not work in 2016, study says - Feb. 26, 2018