earlier we heard from dr shabna begum co ceo of the runnymeade trust who gave us a breakdown of the orginal speech, and what it meant for the uk. the speech itself was part of a much wider civil rights movement, as we well know, which was campaigning for the end to segregation, as well as and what is not as commonly known as the economic kind of rights that black people in america were denied at the time. and the speech, as we well know, and we very much hear the last five minutes of it, but it s a 17 minute long speech and the start of it is a really challenging indictment of the american system.
Before the pandemic, some one in four Black young people in this age group were were unemployed, now the figure is now more than one in three.
Unemployment rates among young Black people are now disturbingly similar to those during the time of the Brixton riots.
While there have been job losses among other ethnic groups, they have not been as steep as that of young Black people.
Unemployment among young people from Asian backgrounds has increased from 21 per cent to 24 per cent, with unemployment among their white counterparts increasing from 10 per cent to 13 per cent.
Senior research and policy analyst at Resolution Foundation said Kathleen Henehan said: The furlough scheme has done a fantastic job of minimising job losses amidst unprecedented shutdowns of our economy, she said.