The New York Amsterdam News Covered the Joint Center’s State of the Black Labor Market Report

The New York Amsterdam News covered the Joint Center’s State of the Black Labor Market report, which provided an eight-month analysis of unemployment and employment trends for Black Americans from January to August 2026.

From the article: “We can say that the unemployment rate is getting better for Black workers,’ said [Cantrell] Dumas, who spoke with the Amsterdam News as the Labor Day report was being finalized. ‘But one of the reasons the unemployment rate could be going down is that a lot of Black people are not looking for jobs anymore. They may feel disenfranchised and feel like, you know, what’s the point?’ he said.”

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