Directions: 1. Read the passage below. 2. Create a summary of the passage. Keep in mind, the summary must be in your own words, and it must be shorter than the original. 3. Be sure to include the main idea of the passage and a few of the major details. 4. Introduce the summary. 5. Add the in-text citation. 6. Double space the summary. 7. Use size 12 font and Times New Roman style. 8. Double check your work before submitting it. Passage: This 2-to1 Black-white unemployment rate gap is not an accident: The labor market is designed to create it. In February 2020, the Center for American Progress wrote about consistent and persistent 2-to-1 racialized unemployment gap, in part refuting the theory that tight labor markets can close this gap.. The theory posits that in a tight labor market-wherein the economy is close to full employment-employers are less likely todiscriminate, allowing people traditionally on themargins of labor market to finally get hired. Although this phenomenon may help explain the falling Black unemployment rate, it cannot explain the gap. Since unemployment data disaggregated by race first became available in 1972, African Americans have consistently shown an unemployment rate double that of whites. this 2-to1 gap has persisted through some of the best economies and through some of the most severe economic downturns. Source: Olugbenga Ajilore. September 28, 2020. Center for American Progress "The Persistent Bl;ack-White Unemployment Gap is Built Into the Labor Market". p. 2.