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The labor market in the United States during the COVID-19 crisis shows disparities that mainly affect minorities.
Although the unemployment rate fell to 6.3% in January, this figure is much lower for white workers (5.7%) than for groups such as Hispanics (8.6%) and black people (9.2%). ).
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In this sense, the president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, warned this Tuesday during a testimony in the Senate Banking Commission that “greater stability in employment is a broad and inclusive objective, and we not only look at the numbers of headlines".
This is because some groups are bearing the impact of the pandemic with more difficulty, and therefore have unemployment levels above the national average.
The Federal Reserve has insisted that it will not increase its interest rates as long as the United States maintains current unemployment and inflation levels.
Powell will continue to address these issues this Wednesday, when he appears before the Housing Services Committee in the House of Representatives.