Trump's workforce cuts have hit BW the hardest; every other race saw job increases

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When President Trump started dismantling federal agencies and dismissing rank-and-file civil servants, Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the Education Department, immediately started to make a calculation.

She was the first Black person and the first woman to hold the prestigious post of commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. As a political appointee, she knew there was a risk of becoming a target.

But her 35-year- career at the department spanned a half dozen administrations, including Mr. Trump’s first term, and she had earned the respect of officials from both parties. Surely, she thought, the office tasked with tracking the achievement of the nation’s students could not fall under the president’s definition of “divisive and harmful” or “woke.”

But for the first time in her career, Dr. Carr’s data points didn’t add up.

On a February afternoon, a security guard showed up to her office just as she was preparing to hold a staff meeting. Fifteen minutes later, the staff watched in tears and disbelief as she was escorted out of the building.

“It was like being prosecuted in front of my family — my work family,” Dr. Carr said in an interview. “It was like I was being taken out like the trash, the only difference is I was being taken out the front door rather than the back door.”

While tens of thousands of employees have lost their jobs in Mr. Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to shrinking the federal work force, experts say the cuts disproportionately affect Black employees — and Black women in particular. Black women make up 12 percent of the federal work force, nearly double their share of the labor force overall.

For generations, the federal government has served as a ladder to the middle class for Black Americans who were shut out of jobs because of discrimination. The federal government has historically offered the population more job stability, pay equity and career advancement than the private sector. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal government aggressively enforced affirmative action in hiring and anti-discrimination rules that Mr. Trump has sought to roll back.

The White House has defended Mr. Trump’s overhaul of the federal government as an effort to right-size the work force and to restore a merit-based approach to advancement. In July, the Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Trump could continue with mass firings across the federal government.

In a statement, Harrison Fields, a White House spokesman, said that Mr. Trump was “ushering in an economy that will empower all Americans, just as it did during his first term.” He added that “the obsession with divisive D.E.I. initiatives reverses years of strides toward genuine equality.”

“The policies of the past that artificially bloated the public sector with wasteful jobs are over,” he said. “The Trump administration is committed to advancing policies that improve the lives of all Americans.”

But economists say that Black women are being hit especially hard by Mr. Trump’s policies, which are also rippling through the private sector as corporations have abandoned their diversity, equity and inclusion practices and related jobs, many of which were held by Black women.

The most recent labor statistics show that nationwide, Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period, according to an analysis by Katica Roy, a gender economist.

Experts attribute those job losses, in large part, to Mr. Trump’s cuts to federal agencies where Black women are highly concentrated.

White women saw a job increase of 142,000, and Hispanic women of 176,000, over the same time period. White men saw the largest increase among groups, 365,000, over the same time period.

Ms. Roy said that with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment. And over the last decade, the experiences of that population have consistently signaled what is to come for others.

“Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first,” Ms. Roy said. “And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one.”

rest of article at: In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit - The New York Times

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[Babymama Magnet]

What about black men? Why doesn't this article reference whether black men had a job increase/decrease??

 

[DrexlersFade]

She wasn't standing on business

 

[DonB90]

What about black men? Why doesn't this article reference whether black men had a job increase/decrease??

 

[god shamgod]

319,000 jobs lost in 5 months is insane

Especially for a single race and gender

That article sad to read. Bytch ass president and all his spineless cronies really out here saying “woke” and “divisive dei” so basically discriminating is acceptable

 

[BaggerofTea]

the damage this administration is doing to the black race.....will take decades if not a full century plus to recover

 

[Voice of Reason]

What about black men? Why doesn't this article reference whether black men had a job increase/decrease??

Exactly why I’m starting to hate feminism it’s detrimental to our race. It’s insidious how they framed this issue.

 

[Brolic]

What about black men? Why doesn't this article reference whether black men had a job increase/decrease??

 

[BaggerofTea]

What about black men? Why doesn't this article reference whether black men had a job increase/decrease??

this is a quite frankly, emotional immature way to think

 

[Babymama Magnet]

Im

this is a quite frankly, emotional immature way to think

I’m genuinely curious.. the article compares black women with the job increases that white women and Latin women are having then proceeds to include white men and their current job increases situation. Why did this article leave out black men??

Are black men worse or better off? My assumption (and I could be wrong) is that if black men were as down bad as black women with this current job market the article would make a reference to it?

 

[Georgiamuscle]

Well I think they’ll be fine seeing how WM appreciate them more at least that’s what they tell us

 

[Black Hans]

Trump is tired of fat black women bothering him. Literally, he said that. Maybe this is payback?

 

[Samori Toure]

319,000 jobs lost in 5 months is insane

Especially for a single race and gender

That article sad to read. Bytch ass president and all his spineless cronies really out here saying “woke” and “divisive dei” so basically discriminating is acceptable

This must be an old article, because as of the end of July there were over 806,000 jobs lost across the country. There are over 1 million jobs lost as of right now.

Black women are probably getting hit the hardest but as of right now everyone is seeing job losses.

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[BaggerofTea]

Trump is tired of fat black women bothering him. Literally, he said that. Maybe this is payback?

Keep in mind this poster is an anglo Saxon trump supporter

 

[UpAndComing]

I believe majority of Black Women work Federal/State/City government jobs, which Trump reduced. So it's not surprising