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This is compared to the number of young, white people who are unemployed which has marginally increased from 10.1 per cent to 12.4 per cent. According to a new report by the Public Accounts Committee, unemployment among young, Black people has almost doubled throughout 2020. During the last quarter of 2019, this figure stood at around a quarter (24.5 per cent) but a year later, this was shown to have risen to 41.6 per cent. In the same period, unemployment among young, white people rose by just 2 per cent – increasing from 10.1 per cent to 12.4 per cent. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) admitted they were unable to explain this “shocking inequality” although the detrimental effect of the pandemic on marginalised groups has been well-explored. The TUC previously reported that the unemployment rate among BME workers has risen at triple the speed of the unemployment rate among their white counterparts. Seeking to explain why this may be, the report states that the DWP has relatively few programmes targeted directly at people from minority ethnic communities, and instead expects work coaches and providers to tailor their national programmes to individuals. In addition, the research also expressed that
