The U.S. unemployment rate overall fell in February, but rose for Black women, who have been disproportionately affected during the pandemic.
Covid's disruption of the child-care industry has also sidelined female workers, economists told CNBC
Black men in the U.S. are overrepresented in transportation and warehouse industries, which have expanded during the pandemic as e-commerce boomed, Holder noted. "The white unemployment rate is now lower than the Black unemployment rate has ever been," said Elise Gould, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
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