Chart: Lower unemployment is associated with a lower Black–white unemployment rate ratio: Overall unemployment and the Black–white unemployment ratio at business cycle peaks

Figure G

	Unemployment rate	Black–white unemployment ratio
(1979)	5.9	2.4
(1989)	5.2	2.5
(2000)	4.0	2.1
(2007)	4.7	2.2
(2019)	3.6	1.7

Source: Author’s analysis of Current Population Survey data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS-CPS 2021).

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