Black employment has benefited from the same forces that have helped all workers — a surge in labor market demand coming out of the pandemic fueled by federal stimulus, which has led to one of the fastest job recoveries on record, sending the national unemployment rate to historic lows. ”Historically the Black unemployment rate in the United States has tended to be twice the White unemployment rate due to systemic racism and other broad structural forces, such as differences in access to education and higher-paying jobs, labor economists say. For now, the record low Black unemployment rate is also a win for the Federal Reserve, which has been accused of widening economic inequality