A quick guide to unemployment rates, by race, in major US cities

A quick guide to unemployment rates, by race, in major US cities

Before Covid-19, US unemployment was at a 50-year low. In Minneapolis, for example, the unemployment rate declined from 3.3% to 3.1% between 2000 and 2018, according to data from IPUMS, a database housed at the University of Minnesota that integrates census and survey data. “That’s pretty alarming I have to say,” says Elise Gould, a senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.