Current:Home > MyA troubling cold spot in the hot jobs report -FundTrack
A troubling cold spot in the hot jobs report
View
Date:2025-04-14 19:35:19
A mixed jobs report today. A month after the Black unemployment rate hit a historic low, 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.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Facebook / Newsletter.
Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts and NPR One.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
veryGood! (465)
Related
- NFL Week 15 picks straight up and against spread: Bills, Lions put No. 1 seed hopes on line
- Atlanta pulls off stunner, get Jorge Soler back from Giants while paying entire contract
- Suspected Balkan drug smuggler 'Pirate of the Unknown' extradited to US
- Anthony Edwards cheers on Team USA table tennis after friendly trash talk, 'challenge' at 2024 Paris Olympics
- Selena Gomez's "Weird Uncles" Steve Martin and Martin Short React to Her Engagement
- MLB trade deadline 2024: Four biggest holes contenders need to fill
- Judges strike down Tennessee law to cut Nashville council in half
- Car plunges hundreds of feet off Devil's Slide along California's Highway 1, killing 3
- Megan Fox's ex Brian Austin Green tells Machine Gun Kelly to 'grow up'
- Lawsuit says Norfolk Southern’s freight trains cause chronic delays for Amtrak
Ranking
- EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
- Donald Trump to attend Black journalists’ convention in Chicago
- 83-year-old Alabama former legislator sentenced to 13 months in federal prison for kickback scheme
- Voting group asks S. Carolina court to order redraw of US House districts that lean too Republican
- Megan Fox's ex Brian Austin Green tells Machine Gun Kelly to 'grow up'
- Bella Hadid was 'shocked' by controversial Adidas campaign: 'I do not believe in hate'
- Heavy rain in northern Vermont leads to washed out roads and rescues
- Spirit Airlines is going upscale. In a break from its history, it will offer fares with extra perks
Recommendation
Retirement planning: 3 crucial moves everyone should make before 2025
Earthquake reported near Barstow, California Monday afternoon measuring 4.9
The Daily Money: Saying no to parenthood
‘Vance Profits, We Pay The Price’: Sunrise Movement Protests J.D. Vance Over Billionaire Influence and Calls on Kamala Harris to Take Climate Action
Dick Vitale announces he is cancer free: 'Santa Claus came early'
Researchers face funding gap in effort to study long-term health of Maui fire survivors
Detroit woman who pleaded guilty in death of son found in freezer sentenced to 35 to 60 years
Terrell Davis says United banned him after flight incident. Airline says it was already rescinded