November is the second month that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has failed to produce a jobs report due to the recent government shutdown. What we do know about the economy comes from private sources, and they paint a mixed to negative picture. Revelio Labs found that the labor market lost 9,000 jobs last month […]
With the federal government shutdown that began on October 1st ongoing, economic data releases from a plethora of federal agencies have ground to a halt. This also includes the jobs report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Despite the lack of official government data, several private sources that collect labor market data have produced
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Stateline, October 3, 2025, Economists say job losses likely, even as shutdown delays report Black unemployment, which has spiked from 4.8% in April 2023 to 7.5% in August, has likely increased again, said Joseph Dean, who monitors it for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, which encourages more investment in underserved communities. “If there were a jobs report,
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Yahoo Finance, September 5, 2025, The Black unemployment rate is at its highest since 2021. Here’s why that’s a bad sign for the economy. Additionally, more than a quarter of Black men worked in logistics — described as “production, transportation, and material moving occupations” by the Bureau of Labor Statistics — in 2024, noted Joseph Dean, a
Crain’s Chicago Business, August 11, 2025, Government job cuts take a bite out of Chicago’s economy “The federal government has played a unique role in the labor history of Black Americans,” economic researcher Joseph Dean wrote in a February report by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “The decades-long progress made by Black
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It feels especially difficult to secure a job nowadays. The economy added only 22,000 jobs in August as job growth in nearly all industries has decreased or remained stagnant. The effects of what Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, calls a “jobs recession” can be seen everywhere, from the rising length of time
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No one is hiring. That is the key finding from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) latest jobs report showing only 22,000 jobs were added in August with nearly all industries remaining stagnant or in decline. The goods-producing industries, including the construction and manufacturing sectors, lost 25,000 jobs. There were steep losses in the professional/business
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Join Joseph Dean, NCRC’s Racial Economic Junior Research Specialist, at the Alabama NAACP 73rd Annual State Convention. This powerful gathering will bring together leaders, activists, and community members to advance justice, equity, and empowerment across Alabama.
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The August BLS jobs report, along with other economic data released in the same week, provides a window into a labor market losing its resilience amid continued uncertainty. The economy added only 73,000 jobs while the unemployment rate increased to 4.2%. The most shocking finding from the report was the massive downward revision of May
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