Joint Center State of the Dream Report highlighted in Forbes

The Joint Center’s 2026 State of the Dream report was highlighted in Forbes in an article examining inflation-driven rising costs from gas to groceries and the disproportionate burden it is placing on Black men, exposing deep economic vulnerabilities.

From the article: “For Black men, those concerns are even more pronounced. Rising prices are exposing an economic vulnerability that has been years in the making. The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies argues in its State of the Dream 2026 report that the United States is already showing “signs of a Black recession,” citing persistently higher Black unemployment, the erosion of federal employment—a long-standing pathway into the Black middle class—and growing threats to Black entrepreneurship.”

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