previous CNN reporting<\/a>. Additionally, the Trump administration has placed diversity, equity and inclusion programs in its crosshairs.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cWhen the economy slows down, Black workers may be impacted more quickly or more severely,\u201d said Daniel Zhao, senior economist at Glassdoor. \u201cBut it\u2019s consistent with the broader story for all workers of unemployment trending upwards over the last two years. We\u2019ve just seen more of that for Black workers.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n And while the broader labor market seems to be chugging along, that has mostly been due to a few industries: health care, local government and hospitality.\n <\/p>\n
\n In June, the private education and health services industry was up a remarkable 411,000 net jobs compared to six months ago, according to Labor Department data. All other industries, except government and hospitality, added fewer than 51,000 jobs each during that same period.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cBlack Americans tend to work in transportation, warehousing and utilities, which are industries where we\u2019ve seen hiring pulled back, especially in the last few months,\u201d said Cory Stahle, senior economist at employment site <\/strong>Indeed. \u201cBusinesses are trying to figure out what they\u2019re going to commit to as far as pricing, spending and hiring while trying to navigate these tariffs and the uncertainty.\u201d\n <\/p>\n\n Black Americans may also be feeling the brunt of the Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s aggressive downsizing of the federal government, which shed 7,000 jobs last month. Federal employment is down 69,000 from January, according to the Labor Department.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cJob losses in the federal government have continued, which could be explaining part of what\u2019s going on, especially as the administration targets Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs,\u201d said Jessica Fulton, senior fellow at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a nonprofit that studies the challenges facing Black Americans. \u201cBlack Americans are more likely to work in federal government in particular.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Zhao, Stahle and Fulton all said it\u2019s too soon to make any decisive conclusions about the economic state of Black Americans based the latest employment figures.\n <\/p>\n
\n The household survey the Labor Department uses to calculate monthly employment figures draws from relatively small sample sizes for different racial and ethnic groups, making the numbers more prone to swings from month to month.\n <\/p>\n
\n Despite the labor market\u2019s resilience, the economy has shown some signs of weakness in other areas. In addition to the limited job growth in most industries, consumer spending fell after tariff-induced spending sprees in the spring.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Unemployment among Black Americans last month reached its highest level in more than three years,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-238475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114797197643781353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}