Black women breadwinners are bearing the biggest brunt of job loss  

Black workers have been particularly hard hit by the nation’s weakened labor market is hitting Black workers particularly hard. A new jobs report shows that Black unemployment rose a full percentage point to 7%. This is nearly twice the 3.6% rate for White unemployment. 

For Black women, the setback was even more stark, and they experienced the sharpest rise in unemployment – surging from 5.9% in August to 7.3% in September. 

That precipitous jump is especially telling given the fact that Black women are among the college-educated groups in the nation, netting college degrees at disproportionately high rates even as they face racial and gender inequities in the workforce. 

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