Unemployment Decreased, But Not for Black, Latinx Women A new study by the National Women’s Law Center shows that Black and Latinx women are still largely jobless, even after 2.5 million jobs were added. N. Jamiyla Chisholm Jun 9, 2020 1:00PM EDT
Virginia Latest State to Ban-the-Box on Employment Apps Good news for families dependent on men and women with criminal records Carla Murphy Apr 7, 2015 12:44PM EDT
Unemployment Stats Paint a Dangerously Incomplete Picture The latest U.S. jobs report puts unemployment at a low 5.9 percent. But this number doesn’t reflect what’s really going on in millions of people’s lives. Imara Jones Oct 8, 2014 7:00AM EDT
Why Don't We Raise More Hell About Unemployment? This crisis seems to be missing something that its scale would indicate is needed: a sense of national urgency about the dire state of unemployment. Imara Jones Jun 11, 2014 7:00AM EDT
Why Today's Unemployment Number Isn't So Great After All The reason why the unemployment rate seems to be the best since 2008 is that so many Americans have given up looking for work. Imara Jones Jan 10, 2014 1:19PM EST
Black Unemployment Almost Double the National Average The jobs report indicates that the economy is still figuring out how to recover. Imara Jones Dec 6, 2013 1:41PM EST
