There has been a clear deterioration in the labor market for Black workers this year. The decline in Black workers’ employment appears to be concentrated among Black women.
“We, as feminists today, like domestic workers in the 1970s and in the early 2000s, need to think outside the box...We can’t think about domestic work as an individual issue within the household, but as a structural problem....”
President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.
Black women are rejecting narratives that suggest their lack of visibility since November 5 translates into inaction.
Voters for the first time elected two Black women to serve simultaneously in the Senate and sent an openly transgender lawmaker to Congress on Tuesday. Their victories raise the number of Black members of the Senate to five.
Black and Latina women are driving labor union growth in the U.S. amid a decades-long decline in membership. In 2023, Black women’s union membership rate notched a slight bump from 10.3% to 10.5%, while Latinas went up from 8.5% to 8.8%.
The firestorm financial drama offers an incisive look into this phenomenon, and into race, more broadly
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