Black Male Worker Jobless Rate Still Over 15 Percent In USA In July 2020

The official seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the United States for African-American male workers, under the Republican Party-controlled White House and U.S. Senate and the Democratic Party-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, continued to exceed 15 percent in July 2020. Also, regarding the current unemployment situation for all workers in the USA, according to the the August 7, 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics press release:

"In July...the number of permanent job losers and the number of unemployed reentrants to the labor force were virtually unchanged over the month, at 2.9 million and 2.4 million, respectively. (Reentrants are persons who previously worked but were not in the labor force prior to beginning their job search)...

 "Among the unemployed, those who were jobless less than 5 weeks increased by 364,000 to 3.2 million in July, and the number of persons jobless 15 to 26 weeks rose by 4.6 million to 6.5 million...The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more), at 1.5 million, was little changed over the month...

"In July...the component of general merchandise stores that includes warehouse clubs and supercenters lost jobs (-64,000)... Job losses continued in nursing and residential care facilities (-28,000)... 

"An employment gain in motor vehicles and parts (+39,000) was partially offset by losses in fabricated metal products (-11,000), machinery (-7,000), and computer and electronic products (-6,000)... Mining continued to shed jobs in July (-7,000), reflecting a loss in support activities for mining (-11,000)...."

In July 2020, 16,338,000 people in the United States were still unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' seasonally adjusted figures; and the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for all U.S. workers was 10.2 percent.