The Voting Rights Act Is Gutted — Black Workers Will Pay The Price

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Black workers will feel it first. But if history is any guide, none of us ...
Yahoo

Black Americans describe how being a federal worker was their path to the middle class — and the heartbreak of losing it

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black federal workers have historically benefited from stability, good benefits, and less discrimination. Trump's job cuts and DEI ...
Yahoo

3 ways Black people say their white co-workers and managers can support them and be an antidote to systemic racism

It’s a question a lot of white people have been asking in recent years, especially since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020. It taps into a recognition of the impact of systemic ...
Charlotte Observer

Black workers still underrepresented in skilled trades

Demand for skilled workers in the trades is at a record high, as you might have heard. There’s a lack of workers currently employed in the trades - that is, welders, carpenters, plumbers, electricians ...
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Black workers and the hidden fragility of the labor market

(ThyBlackMan.com) Labor economists like me mark our calendars for the first Friday of each month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases The Employment Situation. In February, that report did ...
Black Enterprise

The Crisis Facing Black Workers and America’s Economy

Black people in America are facing an employment crisis, one that the Trump administration helped to create and deliberately worsened. Early promises of “efficiency” and “cutting waste” have instead ...
Cal Alumni Association

Black Workers Are Healthier in More Diverse Workplaces

In the first study of its kind, researchers from UC Berkeley School of Public Health found that Black workers in Michigan automobile manufacturing plants with a greater number of Black colleagues had ...
Inc

Public Workforce System Steers Black Workers to Low-Wage Jobs, Report Says

A new report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has found that the U.S. public workforce system may be perpetuating racial inequities in employment for Black Americans. The ...
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Job Losses Hit Black, Asian, and Hispanic Workers Hard, Raising Concerns for All Americans

While headlines this year have focused on the overall jobs picture, hidden in plain sight is a troubling fact: while white workers have seen a slight downtick in unemployment since April, job losses ...
Forbes

DEI Can Expose Racial Gaps. Why Are Black Workers Lukewarm About It?

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. For many Black workers, DEI can seem disconnected from the challenges they face. In a recent ...
St. Louis American

Black workers fall further behind in Trump’s second term.

A new report finds President Donald Trump’s policies have pushed Black communities into an economic downturn. Photo by Liza Summer / Pexels When President Donald Trump took office for a second time ...