ahead of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, that “lost earnings not only leave Black women without a financial cushion to weather the current crisis, it also makes it harder for Black women to build wealth, contributing to the racial wealth gap and barriers to Black families’ economic prosperity.” This is especially true for women in frontline jobs; women working as wait staff in restaurants lost $7,800 due to the existing wage gap. Black women working as teachers lost $14,200 this year.
“Black women’s labor market position is the result of employer practices and government policies that disadvantaged Black women relative to white women and men,” she wrote for the Economic Policy Institute in 2019. Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, founder and president of the Women's Institute for Science, Equity and Race, agreed. She said it’s important to consider “occupation segregation.
“While it’s difficult to say with certainty what impact COVID is going to have on Black women’s earning and wage disparities going forward, we certainly know it has interrupted the potential for Black women to increase or push for higher wages,” she said. “In a period where joblessness is low, workers have more leverage. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, the leverage that workers had, including Black women, has now been stymied.
NBCBLK NBC, your HQ for racist propaganda.
NBCBLK What utter nonsense.
NBCBLK Sounds like something from Joementia’s malarkey bus
NBCBLK $MNPR Helping the madness end sooner
NBCBLK August 13 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day ... can we create a day called White Women’s Equal Pay Day?
NBCBLK The hole POTUS Trump has put us all in is fairly deep. The current unemployment rate in double digits and if anything it's an underestimated. That’s a very very bad state for the labor market to be in. It’s worse in fact than at any point during the Great Recession. VoteHimOut
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So black (& white) women are too dumb to contact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and have them force the companies to pay equal wages for equal work and qualifications?
It appears it's also GFY day as well.
LMbtomas Stop. The identity politics is getting rely old.
BULL SHIT
Oh come on man. You know, the thing.
How about showing us some evidence on this claim
NBCBLK What? The fake news media can't stop with the race baiting. There is a reason why we call you fake news.
NBCBLK This is another stupid racist story by FakeNews which has NO basis or FACT whatsoever
NBCBLK These clowns r still spreading this debunked myth
NBCBLK Prayers
Who cares
CannonHinnant
You guys make shit up even if you have no real idea what your talking about.
Talk about a fake media stretch. Give it a break, we are tired of identityism and your racism.
CannonHinnant
Well, if we have a new administration after the November elections. It can be a new beginning to invest in the populace instead of billionaires and big businesses.
TALK ABOUT IT! abcnews CBSNews CNN reuters His name was Cannon Hinnant. He was 5 years old and now he is gone....Mention it at the very least!
NBC in case you did not know it the pandemic will affect all people for years to come.......not just black women.......
Black lives matter🙏
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