Human Capacity: Unemployment
Perhaps the clearest measure of using human capacity well is whether people are employed are not.
Unemployment Rates, 2000
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As with educational attainment, metropolitan Kansas City finds itself in the middle of its peers with respect to white and Hispanic unemployment, but in the lower half with respect to black unemployment.
Blacks are clearly the most underutilized, with unemployment rates generally above 10 percent compared to Hispanic rates averaging near 7 percent and white rates under 4 percent.
Unemployment Rates, 2000
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Examining the ratio to white unemployment directly, blacks in the Kansas City area have 3.5 times the unemployment rate of whites, while Hispanics have twice the rate.
While the relative performance of Hispanics is about average for its peers, the relative performance of blacks is significantly weaker than in any of them, with the exception of Minneapolis.
Minneapolis' extraordinarily low 2.8 percent unemployment for whites did little to help its nearly 12 percent unemployment for blacks.
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