Black women suffered large employment losses in 2025

[Sunnyskies801]

https://www.epi.org/blog/black-women-suffered-large-employment-losses-in-2025-particularly-among-college-graduates-and-public-sector-workers/

"The 2025 labor market can best be characterized as faltering. The national unemployment rate climbed to its highest point in four years, job growth slowed dramatically, and federal employment fell by a staggering 277,000. Black women bore the brunt of the economic slowdown, suffering far greater employment losses than other groups of women or Black men. Notably, some of the largest losses among Black women were college graduates and public-sector workers, according to our new analysis."

I just want to know is anyone going to address this in 2026? This is a serious issue that the Democratic Party must address.


I am not trying to spam this board. I am crying out to be listened to as a BW who votes democratic. Be are being ignored!!!!

[Renew Deal]

4. I did

[Just_Vote_Dem]

16. Yep

Looks like somebody got real nervous with the Talarico win

[JBTaurus83]

2. The DEI

Crackdowns and government layoffs were aimed directly at the most loyal of Dem voters. Candidates on our side should be tripping over themselves to address this.

[leftstreet]

6. sigh

this is so sad

[leftstreet]

9. Well you've come to the right Democratics

Many, many sharp people on DU can help with your questions

[violasays]

10. We are in between a rock and a hard place

As long as the black voting bloc (and more specifically, black women), is considered an automatic gimme for the mainstream Democratic party, nothing that assists black people (and more specifically, black women) is going to change. And on the other hand, the modern GOP is insane and racist, so no one on that side cares at all.

I think what it will take is a female version of Obama (and no, not Michelle), coming to prominence in the way AOC did. I genuinely thought it would be Ayanna Pressley, but she seems to have faded into the woodwork. And, unfortunately, VP Harris isn't the same sort of rhetorician that Obama was.

But I feel that only when/if we have an African-American female politician in a top role who evokes the same sense of unity and belonging that Obama did, will things materially change for black women in this country, Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see that in the lifetime of anyone currently alive.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

13. Bingo!!

[Boo1]

14. This exactly

Who was in charge in 2025 again?

[blm]

15. Fed workers in jobs enacted by Democratic policies were fired by Trump's DOGE.

Who voted to make that happen?

Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an Easy Target
The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed

[irisblue]

18. I absolutely agree with you Sunnyskies801. Black Women have been the workhorses of the our Party

Ignoring the kitchen table issue of employment loss among the Democratic Party's most faithful ang hard working members is very foolish.

The article you posted might be eye opening for some of the people in this thread.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. If necessary

Post in the African American Group.

[electric_blue68]

20. While it's Drumphf & co, Eloon who attack/ed DEI policies, etc and -should be- Highlighted...

having paid attention to the general DEI attacks....

JBTaurus has a important point that Dem candidates should point this out amoungst the issues they address. If for no other than helping self-presevation of The Party, let alone being empathic to the injustices being caused by these actions.

Sunnyskies's EPI article is given a personal dimension by blm's Pro-Publica article highlighting some of the Black women affected. Definitely upsetting.

Actually not just Democratic candidates. Should be mentioned by Dems in general.