OCCUPATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS

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Workers 16 years and over

Car, truck, or van - drove alone

Car, truck, or van - carpooled

Public transportation (excluding taxicab)

Walked

Other means

Worked at home

Mean travel time to work (minutes)

SOURCE: US Census Bureau 2010 American Community Survey

15,432,414

71.7%

10.0%

11.1%

2.8%

1.7%

2.7%

27.5

136,941,010

76.6%

9.7%

4.9%

2.8%

1.7%

4.3%

25.3

COMMUTING TO WORK

More than twice as many African Americans use public transportation to reach their jobs than that of all Americans and they typically live further from job centers. This makes for higher average commute times to work.

Blacks

(all usa)

Most families with an unemployed member also have at least one family member who is employed. Among families with an unemployed member in 2009, 68.6 percent also had an employed member, compared with 70.8 percent in 2008.

Among married-couple families with an unemployed member in 2009, 79.9 percent had an employed member, down from 82.5 percent in 2008. For families maintained by women (no spouse present) with an unemployed member, the proportion that also contained an employed member was lower in 2009 (46.1 percent) than in 2008 (49.1 percent). For families maintained by men (no spouse present), the proportion fell to 52.6 percent in 2009 from 57.3 percent in 2008.

The share of all families with an unemployed member rose from 7.8 percent in 2008 to 12.0 percent in 2009. The proportion of families with an unemployed family member in 2009 was at its highest level since the data series began in 1994.

SOURCE: 2010 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (updated as of June 2010)

PERCENT OF FAMILIES WITH AT LEAST ONE UNEMPLOYED MEMBER 2008-2009

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Black

2008 – 12.8%

2009 – 17.4%

White

2008 – 07.1%

2009 – 11.1%

BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES

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EMPLOYED PAYROLL

Of the 1.9 million black-owned businesses in 2007, 106,824 had paid employees, an increase of 13.0 percent from 2002. These businesses employed 921,032 people, an increase of 22.2 percent; their payrolls totaled $23.9 billion, an increase of 36.3 percent. Receipts from black-owned employer businesses totaled $98.9 billion, an increase of 50.2 percent from 2002.

NO EMPLOYEE PAYROLL

In 2007, 1.8 million black-owned businesses had no paid employees, an increase of 64.5 percent from 2002. These nonemployer businesses' receipts totaled $38.6 billion, an increase of 69.0 percent.

RECEIPTS

The number of black-owned businesses with receipts of $1 million or more increased by 35.4 percent to 14,507 between 2002 and 2007

STATES

Black-owned businesses accounted for 28.2 percent of businesses in the District of Columbia, which led the nation, followed by Georgia, where 20.4 percent of businesses were black-owned, and Maryland, where 19.3 percent of businesses were black-owned.

Among states, New York State had 204,032 black-owned businesses and accounted for 10.6 percent of the nation's black-owned businesses, followed by Georgia, with 183,874 black-owned businesses (9.6 percent) and Florida, with 181,437 (9.4 percent). "

COUNTIES

Among counties, Cook, Ill., had the most black-owned businesses, with 83,733, accounting for 4.4 percent of all the nation's black-owned businesses. Los Angeles followed with 59,680 (3.1 percent) and Kings, N.Y., with 52,705 businesses (2.7 percent).

CITIES

Among cities, New York City had the most black-owned businesses, with 154,929 (8.1 percent of all the nation's black-owned businesses), followed by Chicago, with 58,631 (3.1 percent), Houston, with 33,062 (1.7 percent) and Detroit, with 32,490 (1.7 percent).

SOURCE: US Census 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO)

In 2007 there were a total of 1.9 million Black owned business in the United States, an increase of 60.5% from 2002. Receipts generated by Black-owned businesses during the same time period increased 55.1% to $137.5 billion

In 2007 nearly 4 in 10 black-owned businesses operated in the health care and social assistance; and repair, maintenance, personal and laundry services sectors. The retail trade and health care and social assistance sectors accounted for 27.4 percent of black-owned business revenue.

Blacks

(all usa)

Private wage and salary employees

Government employees

Self-employed employees

Unpaid family employees

2010 Total Employment

SOURCE: U.S. Census: 2010 ACS

75.4%

20.8%

3.7%

0.1%

50.7%

11.1%

0.5%

37.6%

78.3%

15.3%

6.3%

0.1%

57.0%

6.9%

0.4%

35.6%

Civilian employed population 16 years and over

Management, professional, and related occupations...................

Service occupations................................................................

Sales and office occupations...................................................

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations................................

Construction, extraction, maintenance, and repair occupations...

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations.......

Male civilian employed population 16 years and over.........

Management, professional, and related occupations...................

Service occupations.................................................................

Sales and office occupations....................................................

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.................................

Construction, extraction, maintenance, and repair occupations....

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations.......

Female civilian employed population 16 years and over.....

Management, professional, and related occupations...................

Service occupations................................................................

Sales and office occupations....................................................

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.................................

Construction, extraction, maintenance, and repair occupations....

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations.......

SOURCE: 2010 U.S. Census Bureau Statistics

2007 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (prepared by Shandira Pavelcik)

14,771,000

29.3%

24.9%

25.4%

0.4%

5.3%

14.7%

6,574,000

23.4%

21.1%

19.2%

0.5%

11.1%

24.6%

8,197,000

34.0%

28.0%

30.5%

0.2%

0.6%

6.7%

137,753,000

37.2%

17.7%

24.0%

.7%

5.2%

11.6%

71,988,000

34.8%

14.4%

17.1%

0.9%

15.9%

16.9%

65,766,000

40.9%

21.2%

32.0%

0.4%

0.6%

5.0%

African Americans (all usa)

AFRICAN AMERICAN WORKFORCE BY INDUSTRY

African American Employment

African American Employment

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African American population 16 yrs and up 30,943,064 (all races 243,832,923)

AFRICAN AMERICAN WORKFORCE BY INDUSTRY

OCCUPATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS

The below chart categorizes the African American workforce by industry. As you can see we are again overrepresented in government jobs such as education and social assistance. African Americans also have a large presence in the health care industry which is expected to see substantial job growth for the foreseeable future.

LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION

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Among the major race and ethnicity groups, Hispanics continued to have the highest labor force participation rate (68.5 percent) in 2008, while the participation rate for blacks was the lowest (63.7 percent). The participation rates for whites (66.3 percent) and Asians (67.0 percent) were roughly midway between the rates for blacks and Hispanics, continuing a long-term pattern.

Years White Hispanic Asian Black

2000

67%

68%

67%

65%

2010

66%

68%

67%

64%

SOURCE: 2010 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Black Unemployment Rate Nov 2011: 15.5%

up from 15.1% from October. US unemployment rate: 8.6%

16,051,000

27.1%

23.3%

26.2%

0.3%

4.0%

16.5%

7,500,000

22.3%

19.2%

18.7%

0.4%

8.1%

25.7%

8,551,000

31.2%

26.8%

32.4%

0.2%

0.3%

8.5%

2007 2010 2010

Unemployment rate as of April 2011 was 9%, which is equal to the rate it was in April 2009. That’s 13.7million people unemployed. Of that, Blacks are at 16.1% and the only other group to surpass that rate are teenagers (16-18 years of age) at 24.9%.

An unemployed person is considered nonfarm payroll employment. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total of unemployed ”persons the estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households. All persons who are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work” and those that have stopped looking for work are excluded.

NOTE: Unemployment % from the Dept of Labor represents the % of those who are only in the Labor force as appose to the entire population over 16 yrs of age .

Although African Americans have an unemployment rate almost double that of the overall population, the Black workforce is just as diverse. Because the federal government was one of the first to integrate, African Americans have been over represented in that sector. Black women have made the greatest strides recently. In 2010 34% of Employed Black women have jobs in management or professional occupations compared to 23.4% of employed Black men.

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