Spotlight: Black Workers at Risk for 'Last Hired, First Fired'

Aquil Jones and Joseph Tracy

Southwest Economy, 2020, issue Second Quarter

Abstract: The COVID–19-induced global economic downturn shuttered businesses that have begun slowly reopening and reassessing whether to recall laid-off employees. In the U.S., black unemployment rates have spiked much more than white jobless rates during recessions.

Date: 2020
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