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Black unemployment in America is nearly twice the national average . But in 2014 African-American women had the highest unemployment rate among women (10.5 percent) compared to white women (5.2 percent), according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research .
The June labor report showed unemployment among Black women was down to 7.9 percent compared to the 4.2 percent average for white women.