“I Felt It Coming”: How Black Women Can Prepare — Financially And Emotionally — For A Layoff

“I Felt It Coming”: How Black Women Can Prepare — Financially And Emotionally — For A Layoff

By Kara Stevens ·Updated August 9, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… By the time summer 2025 comes to a close, over 300,000 Black women —and counting—will have found themselves pushed out of work, once again the face of America’s ongoing battle with race, gender, and economic equity in the workplace.Despite over 175,000 jobs being added to the U.S. economy since the beginning of the year, the unemployment rate for Black women has ris…