From Crisis To Progress: How Black Women Are Driving America’s Economic Recovery

Essence Magazine:

By Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo ·Updated April 17, 2024

Black women are playing a critical role in America’s economic recovery.

Four years ago, the pandemic irrevocably changed our lives. We’ve come a long way since then, but our communities were turned upside down, with Black families—and Black women in particular—bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s public health and economic impacts.

In just one month, the unemployment rate for Black women

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