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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.

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.

6.6%

5.7%

LATINO

BLACK

WHITE

ALL

10.7%

5.6%

4.4%

5.1% 6.6%

19.4%

12.1%

8.4%

9.7%

12.1%

11.6%

9.0%

10.0%

12.7%

17.8%

10.2%

17.1%

20112010200920082007

9.1%