Recent transformations in the U.S. economy combined with the historical and contemporary nature of anti-Black racism has resulted in a two-dimensional job crisis facing the Black community: the crisis of unemployment and the crisis of low-wage jobs.  Often, policy makers and key stakeholders focus exclusively on the unemployment dimension of the crisis. This narrow policy approach presents the Black community with a false choice between “no jobs or low-wage jobs”.  This report documents the low-wage dimension of the job crisis. It urges communities to identify public policies that raise labor standards and transform bad jobs as well as reduce the high levels of unemployment.

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