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Black women’s unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened.

Black women’s unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened.

The rate is now equivalent to White women’s during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.

Jan 30, 2026

Amanda Nataro was getting ready to travel to Liberia for a work trip when notice came that all travel was suspended. She was locked out of her emails and the building. In a matter of days, her job of nine years at the U.S. Agency for International Development was gone. MORE

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Black women’s unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened.

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Black women are being hit especially hard in today’s U.S. job market. Here, we compile the latest insights on this reality—and what can be done to better support them.