For Black Americans, job prospects have improved since 2020. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the gains eked out since the murder of George Floyd two years ago appear as fragile as ever. Indeed, inflation is threatening to upend progress in the labor market as policymakers respond to a backlash against rising prices.
While the uprisings that drew thousands into the streets in 2020 helped put disadvantages of Black workers in the spotlight, most experts instead point to government aid and the tight U.S. labor market during the pandemic as driving the collective advances for them and other groups.
