The unemployment rate for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) workers has risen at more than twice the speed for White employees; and is now exceeding worst-case projections, according to the TUC. Its latest analysis of figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the BME unemployment rate shot up from 5.8% to 9.5% between the final quarter of 2019 and the final quarter of 2020; an increase of nearly-two thirds. Over the same period the unemployment rate for White workers … Continue reading Rocketing BME unemployment exceeds worst-case projections