Black workers pay the price of energy crisis New employment figures show black unemployment rocketing as government accused of failing to tackle structural racism ClaudiaWebbe RunnymedeTrust
BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT rocketed at the end of 2022, new figures from the Office of National Statistics show.
The African and Caribbean unemployment rate grew from 7.1 percent to 8.5 percent July to September, and October to December last year. “This crisis, and the pandemic before it, make abundantly clear that when a crisis hits, support needs to be targeted urgently towards those who will be worst affected, usually those at the intersection of multiple structural inequalities. Without continued and significant public investment in social security or commitments to job security and fair wages, our communities will continue to face hardships unknown for generations.
Claudia Webbe, MP for Leicester East, said: “The news that Black people are losing their jobs while employment among white people has fallen is appalling, but sadly unsurprising. “Structurally, Black people are more likely to be working in jobs that are essential for this country’s wellbeing, but which remain insecure and low-paid. As we saw during the pandemic – in both job losses and the death toll among front-line workers – this fact means that Black people generally suffer first and worst from misplaced, negligent or malicious government policies, and Black women suffer most of all.
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