While the nation’s topline unadjusted unemployment rate was 4.4% in January, the unemployment rate among Native American workers was an extraordinarily high 11.1%.
“Nearly two years into the recovery, Native American workers are contending with a labor market that would be considered catastrophic if it was reflective of the full economy.”“It was the first time, in my opinion, a historic data release,” said Maxim, a senior research associate at Brookings in Washington, D.C. and a citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.
“I think that largely left us out of the discussion when it came to how the labor market was doing,” Maxim said. Even with the recovery, Native Americans have an unemployment rate “that’s two and a half times higher than the nation as a whole,” Maxim said. Those could be considered “crisis levels,” he said.
The health disparities, magnified by the pandemic, lead to worse economic outcomes. He said: “If you’re not healthy enough to work, if you’re just trying to stay alive, you can’t even think about your economic well being. You’re just trying to survive.”Beyond the January employment news, the Brookings piece explores improving the data quality of economic reporting.
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