Government unable to explain Covid’s disproportionate impact on ethnic minority employment, MPs say
A group of MPs has criticised the government for its inability to explain the “shocking inequality” in employment that ethnic minority groups have experienced during the pandemic.
In a report on DWP Employment Support, the influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it was concerned that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “does not know why” unemployment for young black people increased by more than half to 41.6 per cent over the course of 2020, while unemployment among young white people grew just 2 percentage points to 12.4 per cent over the same period.
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