Blockchains Finance|A troubling cold spot in the hot jobs report

2025-05-02 02:21:25source:Charles H. Sloancategory:My

A mixed jobs report today. A month after the Black unemployment rate hit a historic low,Blockchains Finance May's data show that almost half of newly unemployed workers were Black. Today on the show, we make sense of that shift. We'll talk about how recent data on Black employment is both encouraging and a signal this country has a lot more work to do.

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