{"id":5084214,"date":"2020-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/latinos-have-nations-highest-unemployment-rate-and-in-connecticut-it-could-be-extreme\/"},"modified":"2020-05-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:00:00","slug":"latinos-have-nations-highest-unemployment-rate-and-in-connecticut-it-could-be-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2020\/05\/15\/latinos-have-nations-highest-unemployment-rate-and-in-connecticut-it-could-be-extreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Latinos have nation\u2019s highest unemployment rate, and in Connecticut it could be extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Ana Radelat<\/em><\/a>, CTMirror<\/a><\/em>.org<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n

The U.S. Labor Department Friday reported that the national unemployment rate, especially among Latinos and African Americans, soared to historic heights in April because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n

In Connecticut the job loss among Latinos may have been even greater.<\/p>\n\n\n

The U.S. Labor Department pegged the unemployment rate for the nation at 14.7 percent in April \u2014 the highest since the Great Depression. Broken down, that was 14.2 percent for non-Hispanic whites, 16.7 percent for African Americans and 18.9 percent for the nation\u2019s Latinos. A racial and ethnic breakdown of current unemployment for Connecticut is not yet available.<\/p>\n\n\n

However, according to UnidosUS<\/a>, the nation\u2019s largest Latino advocacy group, the coronavirus pandemic has ravaged sectors of the economy where Latinos and other people of color make up a significant portion of the workforce. The leisure and hospitality sectors are among the industries where Latino employees saw the greatest losses. They make up nearly a quarter of all workers in leisure and hospitality, nationwide and an even greater proportion of the workforce in that sector in Connecticut \u2014 32 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThese [unemployment] numbers are simply devastating for our community and country,\u201d said UnidosUS President Janet Murgu\u00ed.  \u201cWe are seeing that Latinos are bearing the brunt of this pandemic because they hold a disproportionate number of jobs in devastated industries such as hospitality, transportation and travel. And because these are often hourly or gig jobs, they do not have benefits such as sick leave and other paid time off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

She is advocating that Congress address the job loss discrepancies in the next stimulus bill.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThe alarming rate of job loss overall among Latinos and other communities in similar circumstances underscores the need for stimulus efforts that fully include everyone,\u201d Murgu\u00eda said.<\/p>\n\n\n

While no racial and ethnic breakdown of Connecticut\u2019s jobless numbers is available \u2014 and no Connecticut unemployment data for April will be available from the U.S. or state labor departments until May 22 \u2014 Latino unemployment before the pandemic was much greater than white, non-Hispanic unemployment in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n

According to the Economic Policy Institute<\/a> and state data, Connecticut\u2019s unemployment rate in the last quarter of 2019 averaged 3.8 percent. For non-Hispanic whites it was 2.7 percent and for the state\u2019s Latinos it was 5.8 percent, putting Connecticut among those with the highest rate of Hispanic unemployment behind Pennsylvania, Arizona and Washington state.<\/p>\n\n\n

Nationally, African-American workers had the highest unemployment rate 5.7%, followed by Hispanic workers at 4.1%, white workers (at 3%), and Asian workers (at 2.7%), EPI said.<\/p>\n\n\n

Yanil Ter\u00f3n, executive director for the Hartford-based Center for Latino Progress<\/a>, said those dire statistics may not reflect  the true size of the problem in the state\u2019s Latino community because they only capture those who are jobless but looking for work.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cLots of Latinos stopped looking for work before the pandemic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n

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(Picture: A man walks along Park Street in the Frog Hollow neighborhood in Hartford. The predominately Hispanic neighborhood has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic where businesses have been closed for weeks)<\/p>\n\n\n

Photo by Cloe Poisson, CTMirror <\/p>\n\n\n

Latinos have nation\u2019s highest unemployment rate, and in Connecticut it could be extreme<\/a>, was first published by CTMirror. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher\u2019s Note: CTLN and CTMirror collaborate to best serve the Connecticut Hispanic, Latino community.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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