So, it does indeed appear that black employment was propped up by federal hiring

The black unemployment rate is 7.7% after today’s report, way higher than other races.

The federal layoffs have hit the blacks particularly hard, for two reasons

1) Black people, especially black women, are very overrepresented in the federal workforce.

2) fired black federal workers are not being absorbed fast enough into private sector, compared to fired white and Asian federal workers.

It came out last year via DOGE that *65%* of black women with a degree work(ed) for the federal govt


Essentially, instead of focusing on training an entire group to be acclimated to the private sector, we instead just gave a bunch of them federal jobs, often featherbedded, to “fast track” them to middle class status.

Federal employment is down 11% since Jan 2025, and the mask has been ripped off. It turns out that much of the “gains” in the black community since the civil rights era were artificial and contrived.

Many of these Black women fired last year have yet to get a private job.

Previous admins should be ashamed for doing this.