Whites lost 700,000 jobs over past nine years

[wellst0nev0ter]

At least according to this article:

There are almost nine million more jobs than there were at the previous peak in November 2007, just before the economy tumbled into recession. But the gains have not been evenly distributed.

Despite accounting for less than 15 percent of the labor force, Hispanics got more than half of the net additional jobs. Blacks and Asians also gained millions more jobs than they lost. But whites, who account for 78 percent of the labor force, lost more than 700,000 net jobs over the nine years.

The racial and ethnic divide is starker among workers in their prime. Whites ages 25 to 54 lost some 6.5 million jobs more than they gained over the period. Hispanics in their prime, by contrast, gained some three million jobs net, Asians 1.5 million and blacks one million.

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So is this why whites voted overwhelmingly for Cheeto Benito, because they were actually losing jobs to minorities?

[David__77]

1. Do you interpret this data as meaning whites lost jobs to minorities?

If a white labor force entrant and a non-white labor force entrant apply for a newly-created job, and the non-white individual gets the job, did the white employment candidate lose the job to a minority? I don't think so. I don't interpret this data as meaning that whites lost jobs to minorities.

[wellst0nev0ter]

3. But apparently they did not get a net gain from the job growth

Plus apparently those jobs are mostly service work and located in urban areas, so we can see why the white working class might be unsatisfied with the results.

[David__77]

4. Isn't this, at least in part, a function of demographic change?

Every year people leave the labor market (due to age or other reasons), and people enter the labor market (coming of age or other reasons). I suppose that the composition of labor market entrants is less white than the composition of those leaving the labor labor market, if only because younger people may be more non-white than older people. I think that more useful metrics might be unemployment rate rather than the absolute number of jobs.

[WhiteTara]

2. I used to own a factory and employed

about 30 people. I had white and POC workers. If we ever needed overtime, the POC hands would wave and the white faces would be down in the table. I found POC had greater interest in the success of the company and we worked hard to compensate the people who created the wealth of our company.

[yallerdawg]

5. What are whites willing to do?

There are 5.5 million job openings right now.

Seems to me there's something else going on.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm

[TheFrenchRazor]

6. the racial breakdown matters less than the fact that most new jobs suck. one person can't live

live on the money these jobs pay, much less a family. this has been going on for decades of coursem, but it is hitting critical mass now.

[stillcool]

7. poor whites in rural areas...

vs. minorities in urban areas ...and most new jobs are in the service industry. I guess there's just not enough McDonalds and Walmarts...in rural areas.

[yardwork]

8. According to that chart, whites still have the overwhelming majority of the jobs.

Look at the blue bars.

[uponit7771]

9. yeap, that and no statement on how many jobs PoC lost

[JustinL]

10. there is a fatal flaw in this analysis: it takes no account of changing demographics

According to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, the total number of non-Hispanic whites aged 25-54 decreased by 6.6 million from 2007 to 2015. In that same age group, during the same time period, the number of Hispanics increased by 4 million, and the number of blacks increased by 900 thousand.