Unlike other groups, the Black unemployment rate grew last month.
The overall Black unemployment rate and the rate for Black women both fell to the lowest ever recorded in U.S. history last month.
Not only did the Black unemployment rate in December jump to more than twice that of white people, but Black workers -- who already have long had the highest rate of all demographics -- saw their levels of joblessness grow while everybody else's dropped.
A closer look at the data and statistics reveals some of the reasons why the Black unemployment rate is always the highest. And they're far from the common perceptions that are often rooted in racism.
