{"id":182412,"date":"2026-01-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/black-america-facing-a-recession-across-jobs-housing-and-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:10:12","slug":"black-america-facing-a-recession-across-jobs-housing-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/black-america-facing-a-recession-across-jobs-housing-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Black America Facing A Recession Across Jobs, Housing, And Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/workforce-policy-reinforces-inequality\/\">Black America Facing A Recession Across Jobs, Housing, And Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/workforce-policy-reinforces-inequality\/\">https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/workforce-policy-reinforces-inequality\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-28 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"seattlemedium.com\">seattlemedium.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The &#8220;State of the Dream 2026&#8221; report highlights a sharp economic breakdown for Black America in 2025, driven by a suite of policy reversals and the removal of safeguards.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Black unemployment surged to 7.5 percent by December 2025, from 6.2 percent in January, and could signal a recession if it were spread across the national workforce.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The federal workforce, which offered stable roles for Black workers, saw the elimination of roughly 271,000 positions, disproportionately affecting Black workers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Tax policy changes in 2025 favored high-income households and businesses while reducing funding for poverty-alleviating programs, further deepening economic disparities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Black-owned businesses faced contractions as federal support was redirected and diversity-focused recruitment pipelines were dismantled.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Broadband policy reversals, such as the cancellation of the Digital Equity Act, risked widening the digital divide, limiting internet access for Black households.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Artificial intelligence policy shifts made the deployment of AI more lax, potentially embedding biases into hiring and public services without accountability.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Workforce policy changes stalled initiatives designed to advance African American participation, reinforcing racial disparities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black America Facing A Recession Across Jobs, Housing, And Technology https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/workforce-policy-reinforces-inequality\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-28 10:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nat-pic-STATE-OF-DREAM-AI-PHOTO-1024x683-copy.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-182412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182414,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182412\/revisions\/182414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}