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Black female professionals have seen a steep drop in employment over the last year. They are turning to each other for pep talks and résumé advice.

The job market is not great right now. Hiring has slowed. Artificial intelligence is replacing some knowledge workers. But Black women have been hit especially hard. The unemployment rate for Black women rose significantly from the start of 2025 to December, where it stood at 7.8 percent. That pattern of dramatic job loss was not seen for other groups.

“You don’t see that same loss with Black men, you don’t see that same loss with other groups of women,” said Valerie Wilson, a labor economist and director of the program on race, ethnicity and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “It was a sharp and unique decline in employment for Black women.”

More specifically, it was college-educated Black women — not those with less education or advanced degrees — who lost the most ground. In 2024, 74 percent of Black women with bachelor’s degrees were employed; that rate fell to 71 percent in the first nine months of 2025, while the rate for employed white women with bachelor’s degrees fell less than one percentage point during the same period.

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The fascists have a very specific hatred of black women because they were the only demographic that actually made a true effort to save democracy and hold Trump accountable.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago

That's not why. But they do have an especially strong hatred for black women. How dare they be both.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 days ago

White ethnostate system working as designed.