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BME workers suffer Tory jobs penalty
Youth unemployment: Black up 50 per cent, white down 2 per cent

THE coalition government is leaving behind a racially “penalising” job market, new figures showed yesterday, with two in five black and Asian workers now in poorly paid jobs.

According to a new report by the TUC, the number of black people in low paying jobs increased by almost 13 per cent between 2011 and 2014.

Last year alone, over 15 per cent of the black and Asian workforce was underemployed — nearly 500,000 people.

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