Abby Lane, Fellow

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Recovery’s Anemic Growth Grinds to a Halt in August

Posted by Abby Lane, Fellow | Posted on: September 02, 2011 at 12:22 pm

With the Labor Day holiday around the corner, today’s jobs data leaves no room for celebration. This month, the modest recovery ground to a halt – with no jobs added to the economy in the month of August. Our analysis shows that the news was even worse for women, whose unemployment rate inched up in August. While both women’s and men’s small gains in the private sector were wiped out by public sector job losses in August, since the start of the recovery in June 2009, men have gained 984,000 jobs, while women have lost 345,000 jobs.

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Tags: Congress, Employment, Jobs, Recession, Recovery, Unemployment & UI, Unemployment, Employment | 1 comment

Left Behind: Black and Hispanic Female Teens Lose Jobs in the “Recovery”

Posted by Abby Lane, Fellow | Posted on: August 31, 2011 at 10:11 am

Our ongoing analysis of employment trends for women in the economic recovery has just uncovered more disturbing news that you probably haven’t read about elsewhere. Like women overall and black women, black and Hispanic female teens lost jobs during the so-called recovery and their unemployment rates increased. Indeed, for black and Hispanic female teens the recovery has been far worse than the recession.

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Save the Stats!

Posted by Abby Lane, Fellow | Posted on: August 29, 2011 at 09:49 am

Did you know that over 904,000 children were served by Head Start in 2009? Or that college graduation rates for women have increased by over twenty percentage points between 1970 and 2009 but that nearly 13 percent of women still don’t graduate from high school? Or that, despite working full-time, year-round, 1,168,000 women still lived in poverty in 2008?

All of this information can be found from the Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States.

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Tags: Budget, Education and Schools, Head Start, Poverty, Head Start, Data on Poverty & Income, School Reform & Dropout Prevention | 1 comment

Economic Recovery Worse Than Recession for Black Women

Posted by Abby Lane, Fellow | Posted on: August 04, 2011 at 11:43 am

Our analysis of the impact of the recovery (June 2009 to June 2011) on black women shows that while the economy has experienced modest job growth during this time, black women lost jobs and their unemployment rate rose more than any other group.

Black women have actually lost more jobs during the recovery than they did during the recession itself. Although the recession hit black men harder than black women, black men, like men generally, gained back jobs during the recovery while black women continued to lose jobs. As a result, black women have now lost more jobs than black men since the beginning of the recession.

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