The Intentional Assault on U.S. Black Employment

In this episode, we walk through the Texas Progressive Policy Institute for African American Engagement’s newest policy brief on the unemployment crisis impacting Black communities. Our discussion sounds the alarm on Black joblessness, which has soared to 1.8M jobs lost in just 11 months--more than twice the natinal average of whites--and how this disparity produces concentrated harm in housing, food access, family stability, credit, and mental health. We explain how these outcomes are not the result of individual failures, but of long-standing and newly enacted policy decisions by the current adminstration to intentionally target and to weaken economic security in Black communities.