Due to lower rates of employment and other labor market difficulties, working-age persons with disabilities tend to have lower incomes and are more likely to live in poverty than persons without disabilities. Those with severe disabilities are more likely to be female, African American, older, and less educated than those without disabilities.…

Using data from the current population survey, this article examines patterns of unemployment and employment among Black youth and compares the employment and unemployment patterns of Black teenagers to those of Black young adults (20 to 24 years old). (LRA)

Although college-educated Black women and White women have very similar earnings, substantial economic differences still exist between college-educated Black men and White men. (Author)

This article reports continuing increases in the youth labor force participation rate. The employment situation of workers aged sixteen to twenty-four is described as improved for the year ending October, 1977. The report states that the number with jobs rose by 1.1 million to 20.6 million. Also, the number of unemployed youth dropped by 280,000…