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May 8, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Unemployment among families, 2011

Families with at least one member unemployed, as a percent of total families, by race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2010 and 2011
Category	2010	2011
Total families	12.4	11.5
White	11.3	10.4
Black or African American	19.2	18.9
Asian	11.3	10.9
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	17.4	16.3

These data are featured in the TED article, Unemployment among families, 2011.