Why Is the Black Unemployment Rate Consistently So Much Higher, Twice?

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The black unemployment rate has been twice the white one for decades, says CNN's John Sutter. The numbers are consistent with other indicators of economic inequality that pair and correlate with race, he says. "We now realize the way racial bias can infect us even when we don't realize it," writes Sutter.

The Federal Reserve knows raising interest rates disproportionately hurts Black people. It just doesn’t have any better tools, says the Minneapolis Fed’s Neel Kashkari.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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