“The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent. On top of a slowing economy, the White House’s actions have disproportionately harmed Black workers, economists said.
“I think the speed at which things have changed, in such a dramatic fashion, is out of the ordinary,” said Valerie Wilson, who directs the program on race, ethnicity and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “There’s been such a rapid shift in policy, rather than something cyclical or structural about the economy.”
great, get rid of DEI, throws black people onto the unemployment line.
its a bad policy shift to make a lot of black people unemployable by corporations.
and somehow thats a good thing?
7.5% unemployment rate is unacceptable to me.
how does POTUS right this obvious horrendous policy?
Oh look . . . it is a New York Times article stating that “The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months”
Well when one goes to clooege and don’t learn ■■■■
but instead are trained by trainers to think in terms of DEI and oppression
that is the kind of crappy journalism one produces.
Meanwhile in under 5 mins a real old school journalist would have looked up that information to see the context. (That is what journalists are supposed to do. that is why we have them.)
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I looked and looked for the partofthat piece marked “Op-Ed” and I coud not find it.
What I did find was this
This time, the Trump administration’s assault on diversity programs and cuts to the federal work force could make it even more difficult for Black workers to recover when conditions improve.
and this
The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent.
I guess that (ahem) “jounalist” is not opposed to providing context.
She is just very selective about the context she provides.
Doesn’t fit the assigned narative? doesn’t get in.
Involves thinking or raising quesions? doesn’t get in
The masive layoffs by government is affecting some groups of people more than others. I do not think that was the goal, but it is a stat that will have negative affects to those that lose their jobs. Both fed and state governments have been positive employment opportunities for the black community.
Black women are more likely to be employed in government than in the private sector. For example, as of FY 2021, Black women made up 12.1% of the federal workforce compared to 6.6% of the total civilian labor force. Similarly, one source from 2022 indicates that 22% of Black women in the labor force are government employees compared to 15% of Black men and 15% of all workers
Especially social work. When my girlfriend worked for Mississippi CPS, she was the only white woman in her entire office. Black women made up the entirety of their workforce except for her.
If not for black women, America’s social services would collapse overnight. As a demographic, they tend to be the only people willing to go to school for a bachelor’s degree for jobs that frankly don’t pay all that well. You make it back on the backend but the actual month to month pay isn’t anything to write home about. That’s why my girlfriend switched to elementary education. Even teachers make dramatically more than social workers.
Since 2020 (the starting point I ost often use)
employment in social services (blue line below)
has been growing WAAAY fater than ovreall employment (green line_
Look at the graph on black employment Gaius provided. NYTs just took a tiny slice in time and pretended it represented some sort of trend worth reporting. Over the last five days, my Exxon stock went from $114 a share to $110 per share. It is crashing.
. Sometimes it a three month chart. Now it’s a 50 year. You do realize that everyone can see that right. Well not everyone