ICYMI: The Joint Center brought together staff and partners to honor @GovWesMoore with our Louis E. Martin Great American Award. Check out our mention in @Politico & @PoliticoPlaybook to see who else was in attendance.
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Last Saturday, the Joint Center celebrated its 55th anniversary with a special brunch and exhibition! 🎉 Our exhibition covered our history in 55 photos, and a panel discussion exploring the Joint Center’s history, the evolution of public policy institutions, and the future of equitable, evidence-based leadership.
Our panelists included @bridgingtheracialwealthdivide (President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies), @shavonarline (President & CEO, National Council of Negro Women), Juan Williams (Author & Journalist), and @jotakaeaddy (Founder & CEO, Full Circle Strategies; Founder, Win With Black Women).
Additional speakers included Paul Thornell (Board Chair, Joint Center), @kelleycornish (CEO, @tdj_foundation ), and Dr. Jeanne K. Wardford (Program Officer, @kelloggfoundation ).
Special thank you to everyone who joined us in this celebration and thank you to @lajoycreative for putting together such an amazing event.
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📣 It’s here — Forward Together: The Black Policy Playbook for an Equitable America is now live.
Developed by @jointcenter and @cbcfinc , this playbook outlines evidence-based policy solutions across seven core areas impacting Black communities — including voting rights, economic opportunity, workforce, education, healthcare, criminal legal system, and tech equity.
If you’re a policymaker, advocate, or researcher — this is your guide for turning equity into action.
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🚨 What happens when women become the test case?
For an essay in The Impact Report for The Women's Tech & Telecom Partnership, Joint Center Tech Policy Director & Senior Advisor @attorneydanielle_ breaks down Grok, non-consensual AI images, and the limits of Section 230.
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Without targeted investment and accountability, place-based industrial policy initiatives risk reinforcing existing economic disparities.
A new brief from the Joint Center outlines key barriers and opportunities for Black workers.
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As more Americans tap into their retirement savings to cover basic expenses, a new op-ed from Joint Center Contributor David Asiamah, Ph.D., and Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad explores the rise in hardship withdrawals now affecting 6 percent of U.S. workers and what it reveals about growing financial instability in the U.S.
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"...States are responding in increasingly divergent ways to the pressures on their budgets that they're seeing right now," said @CenterOnBudget Director of State Fiscal Policy Whitney Jemison.
Watch her explain more in our tax policy webinar.
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The Joint Center hosted our first National Economic Roundtable convening.
This space was set to bring together leaders across research, policy, and practice to engage in meaningful discussion about economic policy, the broader economy, and their impact on Black communities, and to help identify opportunities for deeper collaboration.
The convening had welcoming remarks from Tyese Williams, the Advocacy & Policy Manager of NCNW, and Andre Perry, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Community Uplift at the Brookings Institution, on wealth-building, business ownership, familial economic security, and related issues impacting Black economic mobility.
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Watch Joint Center Tech Policy Director & Senior Advisor @attorneydanielle_ discuss the growing challenges around synthetic media and trust in digital content during the @NHMC_org 's AI Detection panel.
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"DC has always been a place of pretty extreme inequality," said @DCFPI Executive Director Erica Williams.
Watch her explain how DC's "unique and highly problematic relationship with the federal government" contributes to this issue in our tax policy webinar.
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Black mothers are central to the economic security of Black families.
69% of Black mothers are key, sole, primary, or co-breadwinners in their households, compared with 40% of white mothers.
But high workforce participation has not translated into equal pay, equal support, or equal stability.
For #MothersDay, our latest snapshot examines the policy choices shaping Black family economic security.
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It's #JobsDay! Each month, the Joint Center analyzes Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data and explains what the numbers mean for Black workers. Our April Jobs Day analysis, led by Joint Center Senior Researcher, Financial Regulation and Policy, Cantrell Dumas, is here. 🧵 #JobsReport
➡️From March to April, the unemployment rate for Black workers increased from 7.1 percent to 7.3 percent.
➡️In April 2025, the unemployment rate for Black workers was one percentage point lower at 6.3 percent.
➡️From March to April, the number of Black workers employed decreased by 179,000.
➡️From March to April, the unemployment rate for Black men decreased from 7.9 percent to 7.6 percent.
➡️The unemployment rate for Black women increased from 6.3 percent to 6.9 percent.
➡️From March to April, the unemployment rate for young Black workers increased from 12.3 percent to 13.4 percent. The overall unemployment rate for all young workers also increased from 8.2 percent to 8.5 percent.
➡️In April, the overall unemployment rate was 4.3 percent, while the Black unemployment rate was 7.3 percent.
➡️At 7.3 percent, the Black unemployment rate remains the highest among all racial groups, compared to 3.7 percent for White workers, 5.0 percent for Hispanic workers, and 3.3 percent for Asian workers.
➡️The U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April, exceeding the 55,000 forecast in the Dow Jones consensus estimate. The stronger-than-expected gain suggests that hiring was more resilient than economists anticipated. However, the simultaneous decline of the number of Black workers employed shows that overall job growth does not always mean employment gains for Black workers.
