Youth Unemployment in the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic Recovery and Racial and Geographic Disparities

This report details the rate of youth unemployment by racial demographic during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study described in the report includes unemployment trends by age group and racial make-up using both state and national level data. Among its findings was that while unemployment decreased during the second year of the pandemic as businesses reopened and the American Rescue Plan was implemented, Black youth continued to have the highest unemployment followed by Latinos and, further, that recoveries in the labor market did not lessen racial and ethnic disparities.