Black Woman Job Tracker
It’s hard to keep up with how the Trump administration is reshaping the job market for Black women. The Black Woman Job Tracker breaks it all down—free. blackwomenjobs.beehiiv.com
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This Black woman lost her job in January. How has she been managing since then?
Symone Austin, 33, was earning $131,000 annually as a UX designer when she lost her job in January 2025, not long after she had purchased her house in North Carolina. Here is how she has managed to pay her $2,800 mortgage and her student loans for the past 10 months despite the loss.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. The economy added only 119,000 payroll jobs in September. Revisions to August and July erased another 33,000 positions (the country actually lost 4,000 jobs … [Read more…]