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Minority workers were harder hit by job loss in the recession than white workers, and their unemployment

rates have been slower to go down.

LATINO

5.6%

6.6%

11.6%

12.7%

12.1%

BLACK

10.7%

12.1%

17.1%

17.8%

19.4%

WHITE

4.4%

5.7%

9.0%

9.1%

8.4%

ALL

5.1%

6.6%

10.0%

10.2%

9.7%

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

Social IMPACT Research Centers analysis of the Illinois Department of Employment Security, Local Area Unemployment Statistics. Characteristics of employed and unemployed. Available at http://www. ides.illinois.gov/page.aspx?item=2514.

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