The Black unemployment rate of 7.1 percent remains at recession levels, almost exactly double that of white workers. The long-term unemployment rate of 25.4 percent demonstrates how much worse the economy is than the 4.3 percent unemployment rate indicates.
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As employers replace more workers with AI to increase their already high profits, Black workers will pay a high price. It's critical to put in guardrails to retain, retrain, and upskill workers, while improving unemployment insurance for those who are displaced.
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NELP’s new fact sheet highlights how underpaid, unstable jobs for workers with records harm families, drain community resources, and widen racial wealth gaps.
Read more about why reforms that center job quality for workers with records are imperative.
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Fact Sheet: Centering Job Quality for Workers with Records #FairChance #JobQuality A Black woman carpenter is at work sawing a table.
Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults has a criminal record. Many are trapped in underpaid, unstable, and unsafe jobs.
NELP’s new fact sheet unpacks the evidence and explains why we need to center job quality for #workers with records.
www.nelp.org/insights-res...
Today @delauro.house.gov, @sanders.senate.gov, and other congressional supporters are reintroducing the Healthy Families Act. This bill would make workplaces safer and more equitable for all #workers– it’s a no brainer.
Women who are out of work deserve support to sustain themselves while they find a new job. Both states and Congress must act to #FixUIforWomen by expanding unemployment insurance eligibility, improving access, and ensuring adequate benefit levels and duration to better support unemployed women.
The unemployment rate among Black women was 6.3% in January, nearly twice the rate for white men (3.3%). The unemployment rate was 4.7% for Latina women and 3.4% for white women. Disparities in unemployment rates result from structural racism and sexism in the labor market.
As a result of discrimination and occupational segregation, women—particularly Black, Latina, Asian and Indigenous women, women with disabilities, trans and queer women, and other marginalized women—confront even more significant obstacles to receiving adequate support after a job loss.
New research from NELP and #The75Million reveals:
✅unemployment insurance can be a lifeline for women who lose their jobs, but
❌unemployed women are less likely to receive benefits than their male counterparts
❌and bring home lower benefits when they do.
bit.ly/FixUIforWomen
It’s #JobsDay – In January, the unemployment rate inched down to 4.3%.
Among women workers, the #unemployment rate was 4.0% compared to 3.6% in January 2025.
When women lose their jobs, what can they expect from the unemployment insurance system? Read our analysis: bit.ly/JanJobs2026
The Trump admin's rule change is another maneuver straight out of the Project 2025 playbook to purge career federal workers and replace them with political loyalists.
The labor movement stands with federal workers. We’ll see you in court, President Trump. https://bit.ly/4rCFgib
Why Women Need a Stronger Unemployment Insurance System Just 25 percent of unemployed women received UI benefits in the first half of 2025. #FixUI
In a #GoodJobsEconomy, all working people have security between jobs.
As the affordability crisis compounds, a new report from NELP & @the75million.bsky.social finds just 25 percent of unemployed women received UI benefits in the first half of 2025: bit.ly/FixUIforWomen
Celebrating Black History Month: Centering Black worker stories of resistance in labor history Caption: Waffle House workers, organizing with the Union of Southern Service Workers, rally for safer working conditions and fair pay.
This #BlackHistoryMonth, NELP honors Black #workers’ continued resistance to institutional violence. Across social movements, Black workers understood the interconnectedness of our struggles to build a #GoodJobsEconomy.
How will you fight for justice this #BlackHistoryMonth?
📉 New analysis by @jbarab.bsky.social looks at declining workplace injury data — and why it doesn’t tell the full story.
Lower reported injuries ≠ safe jobs.
Worker safety needs enforcement, transparency, and worker power.
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The gender wage gap has widened for two consecutive years, the first time that's happened since data collection started in 1960 nwlc.org/resource/wag...
Andrea Lucas’s anti-civil rights leadership “has closed the door of the EEOC to groups that are disfavored by the president,” said Josh Boxerman, who handles civil rights work at @nelp.org.
“That is extraordinary. And it is radical and harmful.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
But a new brief from @nelp.org and @the75million.bsky.social finds a system built for male workers still excludes many women and compensates them less.
When workers lose a job, unemployment insurance is vital.
But a new brief from @nelp.org and @the75million.bsky.social finds a system built for male workers still excludes many women and compensates them less.
Let's #FixUI for working women: bit.ly/FixUIforWomen
In 2025, NELP secured 29 policy wins for #workers, including securing #unemployment for striking workers in #Washington state and #Oregon.
Learn more in our annual Impact Report: www.nelp.org/insights-res...
"A disturbing new analysis from Good Jobs First reveals that enforcement cases for a range of workplace violations declined by 97% percent last year...
This isn’t bureaucratic negligence — it’s the systematic gutting of worker protections."
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In 2025, NELP defended hard-won #WorkersRights and advanced our affirmative vision for a #GoodJobsEconomy where all workers can thrive.
Find out more about our 2025 wins in our #ImpactReport: www.nelp.org/insights-res...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) "We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always right to do right."
This #MLKDay, those in the struggle for #WorkerJustice must remember our movement is “focused on truth, powered by action, and united by a vision for justice that so many before us have fought for.” www.nelp.org/rising-above...
Next Wednesday at 1 PM: Learn from state-level worker-advocates how they successfully won #just-cause protections in their industry ✊
More info and register: jwj-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @jwj.org
Across the country, #workers and advocates are demonstrating extraordinary strength and resilience.
Along the way, NELP amplified worker voices and contributions to build a #GoodJobsEconomy for all. Read more in our Impact Report: www.nelp.org/insights-res...
The Protect America’s Workforce Act has passed the House and is in the Senate!
It’s time for senators to fight for their state’s workers and their union rights.
Tell your senators: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act!
Policies increasing the #MinimumWage move us towards a #GoodJobsEconomy rooted in living wages for all & are a lifeline for #workers impacted by a growing affordability crisis.
@nytimes.com covered our #Raises2026 report & the impact of increases on #workers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
And here's what Congress can do: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...
#FixUI
To support unemployed workers, policymakers must strengthen unemployment insurance. Here's what states should be doing now to support unemployed workers: www.nelp.org/explore-the-...
#FixUI
The health care sector had the most job gains in 2025, adding 366,000 jobs.
But researchers at @commonwealthfund.org find Congress’ decision to allow health care tax credits to expire could erase many of these job gains in the coming months. www.commonwealthfund.org/publications...
The health care sector had the most job gains in 2025, adding 366,000 jobs.
But researchers at @commonwealthfund.org find Congress’ decision to allow health care tax credits to expire could erase many of these job gains in the coming months.
As 2025 ended, workers felt the impact of the Trump’s disastrous policy choices:
❌ Rising unemployment
❌ 277,000 federal public servants no longer serving their country
❌ 880,000+ immigrant workers left the labor force
❌ 63,000 fewer manufacturing jobs