To mark Black History Month, we’re taking a look at how Black women are faring in the economy – and the situation is not good. The first year of the Trump administration undercut protections for workers, with particular impacts for Black women workers.
New data for 2025 reveals the Trump economy is weakening the job market – especially for Indigenous and Black women.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is abandoning its core mission under the Trump Administration.
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released vital economic data for the month of November. The numbers show a continuation of the trend we’ve seen throughout the year – dramatically slow job growth beginning to turn into losses, particularly in industries...
Chaotic economic policies have dramatically slowed the economy – and additional damage looms.
The delay in today’s jobs report is just the tip of the iceberg on the harms from the government shutdown.
The 60th anniversary of Executive Order 11246 reminds of the progress it made possible and the urgent need for Congress to restore and strengthen its protections.
For decades, Congress has underfunded the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and workers – especially women workers – have paid the price.
As we fight to preserve data from the Trump administration’s campaign to erase women, people of color and LGBTQI+ people, it’s important to remember that the status quo before 2025 was never good enough. A particularly stark example of data inequity is Puerto Rico.
The Trump Labor Department is marking Labor Day this year by advancing more than 60 rollbacks to worker protection rules. And their actions suggest they don’t care what workers think.
For Black families – and Black women in particular – President Trump’s targeting of key pathways to the middle-class is a serious threat to their economic well-being. This blog highlights five ways the Administration is pushing economic stability and security further out of reach.
Social Security is the foundation of economic security for people in the United States, particularly women of color. Here are three facts you should know about Social Security at 90 – and one awful lie that the Trump administration and its billionaire cronies are desperate for you to believe.
The July jobs report reveals a faltering economy – and Black women and single moms are bearing the brunt of the Trump Slump.
This Disability Pride Month, we mark the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. But rather than building on progress made for disabled workers, the Trump Labor Department is actively undermining the workplace protections and supports that millions of workers with disabilities rely on.
July 10, 2025 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, commemorating how far into the year that Black women need to work to earn what white, non-Hispanic men made in the previous year.
Understanding the EEOC’s essential role, its history, and the continued importance of its work is more critical than ever, especially in a political moment where the Trump administration is aggressively questioning its merit and dismantling longstanding civil rights enforcement tools.
Dear Working Women: We are under attack. Across the country, extremist politicians and corporate billionaires are working to eliminate hard won protections for working women. The 75 Million campaign will hold policy makers accountable as they block policies that support working women.
Americans are witnessing in real-time a full-throated assault on freedom and democracy, perhaps the most aggressive roll-back of civil rights protections in generations. Using loosely defined notions of “government efficiency,” Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their new...
The Trump administration is wrecking the economy – and women know it. During the last nearly 50 years, women have never felt worse about how the government is handling the economy than they do under Trump and unemployment rates for Black women and veteran women are climbing.
Even if retirement feels out of reach, younger Americans can’t afford to ignore the GOP’s coordinated effort to sabotage Social Security from the inside out.