Joint Center June 30, 2026
Joint Center Senior Researcher, Financial Regulation and Policy, Cantrell Dumas was quoted in the New York Amsterdam News discussing the Joint Center’s May employment and unemployment analysis pulling data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
From the article: “Dumas noted that the unemployment rate for Black workers was 6.6% in May, higher than the 3.8% for white workers and higher than Black unemployment was a year earlier, when it was 6.0% in May 2024. In April, the official national unemployment number was also strong, while Black workers lost ground; in May, Black unemployment moved lower but remained the highest for any racial group.”
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