Racial Disparities
Racial disparities in education, employment, and income exist and persist for a wide variety of reasons, but the economic challenges and opportunities every region in Minnesota will face over the next 15 years are so great that they will need to be tackled with a multi-pronged approach to attracting, retaining, and training workers of all demographic characteristics.
Alternative Measures of Unemployment
Graduate Employment Outcomes by Race
Trends Articles
- State of Minnesota's Labor Markets: Steady On! (June 2025)
- Year In Review: Minnesota’s Labor Market (June 2024)
- Did the Post-Recession Recovery Improve Racial Wage Equity?
- Disparities in Reemployment After the Pandemic Recession Based on Worker Characteristics
- Hispanic and Latino Minnesotans: An analysis of employment, educational and other economic trends and disparities related to the labor force
- Black Minnesotans: An analysis of employment, educational and other economic trends and disparities related to the labor force
- Minnesota's Diversifying Workforce
- How the Deck is Stacked: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Earnings Following High School Graduation in Minnesota
- The Experience of Latinos in Higher Education and in the Workforce
- Racial Disparities Through Recession and Recovery
- Economic Status of Minority Women in Minnesota
- The Experience of American Indian Students in the Minnesota Labor Market