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Trump Gaining In Polls Among Black Voters

by Max Rivera | May 25, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Inflation

As polls show an uptick in support for the presumed Republican nominee, experts say the support for Trump is tied to inflation and a history of incumbents being held responsible for the nation’s economic woes, something that disproportionately affects Black voters....

Economic skepticism may drive young voters away from the ballot

by Laura Turbay | May 25, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Housing, Inflation

Imagine a frog in a pot of water. Someone raises the temperature and the frog acclimates to it. But the heat only keeps rising. That’s what inflation feels like to Kody Kohnen, a 22-year old senior at Texas A&M studying agricultural leadership, who explained...

The Grocer Gap: Racial Disparity in the Food Distribution Industry

by Anastasia Tomkin | May 24, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Retail

It is no secret that Black Americans are underrepresented as business owners. They make up about 12.4% of the US population, but Black business owners are only 2.4% of all employer-owned firms. And while Census data shows that the number of Black-owned businesses in...

In April, jobs numbers cooled after months of surprising growth

by Elisa Muyl | May 6, 2024 | Employment, Featured

The US economy added fewer jobs than expected in April, signaling that months of surprising growth may finally be slowing.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employers added 175,000 new jobs in April, well below economists’ expectations of around 240,000...

After huge gains in jobs in January and February, expectations for March are high

by Elisa Muyl | Apr 9, 2024 | Employment

Economists are looking at tomorrow’s job report to see whether the robust gains the employment market has made so far this year continued in March, demonstrating the job market’s surprising resilience in the face of high interest rates.  Most predict that it has,...
Black Unemployment Hits Historic Low — But Not Everywhere

Black Unemployment Hits Historic Low — But Not Everywhere

by Safiyah Riddle | May 22, 2023 | Employment

  For most of his adult life, De’Angelo Mack worked odd jobs. At a mattress warehouse, a candy factory, Fedex. Most work lasted a couple of weeks or months. But when the Chicago-born 32-year-old started looking for more permanent employment after the pandemic, it...
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Welcome to Dismal Science, a site covering the economy produced by young journalists in New York City. Email the editor Greg David at gregdavid49@gmail.com.

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