Written By Lexx Thornton Unemployment rates over the past year have remained largely steady for every group of workers but one: Black women, whose unemployment rates have been rising. For the past three months that increase has been even more pronounced, with Black women’s unemployment rate hovering at 6 percent — twice the rate of White workers. It’s a trend that has been troubling economists, and a potential sign of strain in the economy. Because of systematic racism and inequities in the labor market, any cracks in the strength of the overall economy always show up for Black workers first,
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