[WASHINGTON]—As the national unemployment rate rose slightly from 5.6 in December to 5.7 percent in January and the economy added 257,000 jobs, the unemployment rate for 18 to 34 year-olds fell slightly to 7.8 percent in January from 7.9 percent in December (seasonably adjusted).

Black young adults still face an unemployment rate that’s more than two and a half times higher than their white peers, 15.5 percent compared to 5.7 percent, respectively. To help close this divide, Congress should pass many of the important job training investments President Obama called for in his budget, including expanding apprenticeships and connecting unemployed young people who are not in school to education and the workforce.

Here are more details on how different populations of young people fared relative to the overall workforce in January 2015: