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Black women unemployment rate rises to 6.3%, signaling continuing crisis
For Black women, 20 years and older, the unemployment rate during July was 6.3%, according to the bureau’s July report. This ...
Opinion
Black Unemployment Surges To Pandemic-Era Levels In July — Here’s Why It Matters
The broader picture shows 7.2 million Americans unemployed in July, with the national unemployment rate rising to 4.2%. While this matches economists’ forecasts, the underlying weakness in job ...
Weak Jobs Report Raises Chances of a September Interest Rate Cut
The Federal Reserve held rates steady in July but two governors dissented, saying they had concerns about labor market ...
Black unemployment is rising—critics say Trump’s ‘Black jobs’ promise was a lie
Just like the workers on his construction projects, Donald Trump wrote the Black community a bad check during the campaign,” ...
Gen Z men with college degrees now have the same unemployment rate as non-grads—a sign that the higher education payoff is dead
Gen Z is increasingly slamming their degrees as useless, and new research indicates there may be some truth when it comes to ...
California ranks No. 1 for unemployment. Again.
Still, California is no stranger to the upper levels of unemployment rankings. June 2025 was the 19th time the state ranked ...
Black Jobless Rate Tops 7% As White House Defends Ouster Of Labor Data Official
The Black unemployment rate hit its highest mark since December 2021, while the White House defended the firing of Erika ...
Veterans Unemployment Rate Drops, But Trump Fires BLS Commissioner After Weak Overall Jobs Report
President Donald Trump ordered the firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Friday following a weak jobs report ...