Maybe it’s the end of racism.
Maybe it’s the beginning of racism (white folks kicking back letting black folks do all the work.)
Maybe it’s about birth rates 60 years ago, white folks growing and retiring
Whatever the reason
last month, for the first time ever, the employment to population ratio
for African-Americans was higher than that for White Americans.
Employment-to-Population Black or African American – 60.9%
Employment-population ratio is higher both for whites and blacks than at any time prior to 1979. In fact it stayed pretty darn low through the 1960s and 1970s (hippie disco freaks didn’t wanna work I guess.)
They don’t provide a whole lot of detail about age groups.