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🚨 In 2025, an estimated 45 percent of Black children could not receive the full CTC because their family income was too low to qualify, according to @CPSPPoverty.
The Joint Center's new brief examines barriers to the Child Tax Credit for Black families and calls for reform.
Read it here: jointcenter.org/The-Child-Ta…
When young Black adults enter the workforce, they're not always thinking about retirement or able to save for it. Over time, with systemic and structural issues like lower wages and unstable income, many Black Americans experience a retirement gap.
Joint Center Senior Researcher Cantrell Dumas talks more about the Black retirement gap on a recent episode of @OnWURD's Evening WURDS.
Listen here: jointcenter.org/joint-center…
Joint Center retweeted
1/ The employment landscape for Black women is shifting rapidly, especially in the DMV.
With over 251,000 job losses in early 2025, the @washinformer reports that Black women are bearing the brunt of the economic downturn. ⬇️
On the last day of #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth, we're uplifting recent @EconomicPolicy data showing that Latina workers between the ages of 25 and 54 "continue to drive the growth in employment rates of Hispanic workers in 2026."
Read the full analysis by Ismael Cid-Martinez here: epi.org/blog/despite-a-softe…
🎙️ TONIGHT @ 6 PM ET: Listen to Joint Center Senior Researcher Cantrell Dumas discuss the Black retirement divide on Evening WURDS (@onwurd) with Dr. James Peterson.
Listen here: wurdradio.com/shows/evening-…
Joint Center retweeted
The raid carried out this morning at the home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar by the Trump Administration is a sham designed to cast suspicion on the Congresswoman and manufacture an appearance of wrongdoing on the eve of the midterm elections, without any apparent legal basis.
Our statement:
🚨 The @JointCenter strongly opposes President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a committee of inquiry into Federal Reserve Governor @DrLisaDCook.
Read our full statement from Joint Center President @DedrickM below.
On #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay, we're reminded that, as of 2025, Native Americans were underrepresented among top staff in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Our 2025 report found that nearly all groups of color were underrepresented among top staff in the U.S. House, including Native Americans, who made up 0.5% of the U.S. population, but only 0.2% of top staffers in the House.
Read it here: bit.ly/4i8THbD
Looking for some weekend reading?
Read Inside Black Policy: Tech Policy for the key tech policy news on AI, affordable broadband access, disinformation, and more.
Read the latest in tech policy here: jointcenter.org/inside-black…
ICYMI: Joint Center Senior Policy Analyst, Workforce Policy Dr. Gabrielle Smith Finnie analyzed the latest unemployment data, finding that:
➡️ From August to September, the unemployment rate for Black workers increased from 6 percent to 7 percent.
➡️ In September, the unemployment rate for Black women increased to 7.3%, and for Black men, it also increased to 6.7%.
Read the full analysis here: jointcenter.org/september-20…
The Joint Center joined @NAACP_LDF and over a dozen civil rights organizations in signing a comment letter to oppose the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) interim final rule (IFR) removing references to the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) from federal civil service regulations.
Read it here: jointcenter.org/joint-center…
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🗣️ The tax code is not a neutral policy.
Joint Center Senior Researcher Dr. LaToya Parker joined Dr. James Peterson on @OnWURD's Evening WURDS podcast to discuss our new policy brief series, “The Tax Codes and Black Wealth,” tax policy and the racial wealth gap, and the next tax debate.
Listen here: jointcenter.org/joint-center…
“Black Americans aren’t targeted because they’re uniquely gullible or susceptible to this — they’re targeted because the Black vote matters,” said Joint Center Tech Policy Director Danielle (Davis) Canty to @NYTimes.
Read it here: nytimes.com/2026/09/29/busin…
For #JobsDay, the Joint Center analyzes the employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and showcases what the numbers mean for Black workers. Our Sept. Jobs Day analysis by Joint Center Senior Policy Analyst, Workforce Policy Dr. Gabrielle Smith Finnie is below. 🧵 #JobsReport
The increase was especially sharp for Black women, whose unemployment rate rose from 5.9 percent to 7.3 percent, a 1.4 percentage point increase.