600,000 Black Women Unemployed
September 8, 2026
The unemployment number went down. Six hundred thousand Black women went home.
A new report finds that discrimination, the rollback of DEI, and federal job cuts have pushed Black women out of work at a scale the headline statistics hide.
Poverty is not a character flaw. It is a policy design — and the same design that empties a paycheck fills a jail cell. Abolition means building an economy where Black women are not one lost job away from criminalization. Start with our Repair work on poverty.
Black Wall St. Times — 600,000 Black Women Pushed Out of the Workforce