In her new book, author and PhD student Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman looks at how both gender and race cost Black women — and how policy can help address those costs.

Hiring in health care has helped propel the job market, but that momentum is slowing.

A day in the life of a struggling, but hopeful, entrepreneur.

It’s possible that employers will roll back racial diversity initiatives even if they’re perfectly legal.

“There are just a lot of positive ripple effects for communities,” says Kali Grant of Georgetown, who co-wrote the updated report.

Black men made gains in warehousing and transportation, which tend to offer low wages. A recession could hit workers of color hard, economist Michelle Holder says

Black women have disproportionally used abortion services across much of the South, where access to the procedure may essentially vanish if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

As analysts predict a pilot shortage in the coming years, a nonprofit flight school in Mississippi is focused on training a more diverse aviation workforce.

“There are going to be lingering scarring effects,” economist Michelle Holder said.

“It’s been very empowering for me, even though it has been very difficult,” says Ko Bragg, a journalist based in New Orleans.