Despite rapid growth and reportedly some of the highest labor force participation rates, Black women have experienced the brunt of recent job loss in the U.S. economy. Between January and December ...
New labor data shows Black women accounted for a disproportionate share of job losses across 2025, especially in federal, education, and care-sector roles.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sophia A. Nelson covers EIQ, Culture, DEI, Politics, & Lifestyle. A cooling economy combined with an aggressive retreat from ...
The picture is even worse for specific subsets of women. The share of mothers of young children in the labor market fell almost 3 percentage points in the first half of the year. Unemployment for ...
This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. When the unemployment rate for African American women hit nearly 7 percent in August, alarms went off ...
Black women are starting businesses at record rates, but too few become employers. New IWOB data shows why scale—not startups—drives job creation.
The unemployment rate for Black workers continues to climb, with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that 300,000 Black women have lost jobs or left the workforce in recent months. For ...
Ongoing workplace and political policy trends are disrupting, or even eliminating millions of U.S. jobs. But recent data suggests those changes penalize two historically disadvantaged groups of people ...
If 2025 taught us anything, it is a familiar truth Black women know well: seats are not promised, titles are temporary, and adaptability is not optional. With the erasure of DEI efforts, mandates to ...
When the government shutdown came to an end last month, the much-delayed jobs report for September was finally released, revealing that the unemployment rate had inched up to 4.4%—the highest it had ...
"Black History Month reminds us that reflection without action is insufficient," writes Theresa Gilbert of Women's March Rockford.
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