{"id":1056015,"date":"2025-09-16T15:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056015"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:46:26","slug":"icymi-donald-trumps-economic-incompetence-is-screwing-over-black-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-donald-trumps-economic-incompetence-is-screwing-over-black-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Donald Trump\u2019s Economic Incompetence is Screwing Over Black Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point<\/strong>: <em>\u201cThe unemployment rate for Black Americans has shot up by 1.5 percentage points over the last three months, a rare development outside of recessions. At 7.5%, it\u2019s once again twice the rate for White Americans, erasing the progress made in narrowing the gap over the last three years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-09-16\/black-unemployment-rises-with-trump-s-workforce-cuts-jobs-slowdown\"><strong>Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a>: <strong>Black Unemployment Is Surging in Trump&#8217;s Overhaul of US Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Jarrell Dillard, Amara Omeokwe, and Catarina Saraiva<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The unemployment rate for Black Americans has shot up by 1.5 percentage points over the last three months, a rare development outside of recessions. At 7.5%, it\u2019s once again twice the rate for White Americans, erasing the progress made in narrowing the gap over the last three years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Two factors have combined to create such an outcome, researchers say: First, <strong>a slowdown in the broader labor market is playing out in the usual fashion, disadvantaging Black workers who tend to be first to lose their jobs when things go south<\/strong>. Second is Trump\u2019s targeted efforts to shrink the federal workforce, where Black workers are overrepresented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hiring more broadly has slowed sharply in 2025 as the administration\u2019s tariffs and immigration crackdown have clouded the economic outlook.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Roughly half of the Department of Education staff has been cut as the Trump administration has moved to dismantle the agency, which had the greatest share of Black federal employees among executive departments as of 2022.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Department of Housing and Urban Development, another agency that employs a large share of Black federal workers, has also lost a significant number of employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Employers added an average of just 29,000 jobs per month in the three months through August, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics figures published on Sept. 5, down from 209,000 on average in the final three months of 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meanwhile Trump\u2019s other signature economic policy \u2014 tariffs \u2014 is raising concerns even among many who do have jobs. <strong>Last month, workers put the probability of finding a new job if they lost theirs at less than 45%, the lowest on record in data going back to 2013<\/strong>, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York consumer survey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cThe unemployment rate for Black Americans has shot up by 1.5 percentage points over the last three months, a rare development outside of recessions. At 7.5%, it\u2019s once again twice the rate for White Americans, erasing the progress made in narrowing the gap over the last three years.\u201d Bloomberg: Black Unemployment Is Surging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Donald Trump\u2019s Economic Incompetence is Screwing Over Black Workers - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-donald-trumps-economic-incompetence-is-screwing-over-black-workers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-16T19:46:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-16T19:46:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-donald-trumps-economic-incompetence-is-screwing-over-black-workers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-donald-trumps-economic-incompetence-is-screwing-over-black-workers\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Donald Trump\u2019s Economic Incompetence is Screwing Over Black Workers - 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