Posted on 08/31/2025 11:55:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.
When President Trump started dismantling federal agencies and dismissing rank-and-file civil servants, Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the Education Department, immediately started to make a calculation.
She was the first Black person and the first woman to hold the prestigious post of commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. As a political appointee, she knew there was a risk of becoming a target.
But her 35-career at the department spanned a half dozen administrations, including Mr. Trump’s first term, and she had earned the respect of officials from both parties. Surely, she thought, the office tasked with tracking the achievement of the nation’s students could not fall under the president’s definition of “divisive and harmful” or “woke.”
But for the first time in her career, Dr. Carr’s data points didn’t add up.
On a February afternoon, a security guard showed up to her office just as she was preparing to hold a staff meeting. Fifteen minutes later, the staff watched in tears and disbelief as she was escorted out of the building.
“It was like being prosecuted in front of my family — my work family,” Dr. Carr said in an interview. “It was like I was being taken out like the trash, the only difference is I was being taken out the front door rather than the back door.”
While tens of thousands of employees have lost their jobs in Mr. Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to shrinking the federal work force, experts say the cuts disproportionately affect Black employees — and Black women in particular. Black women make up 12 percent of the federal work force, nearly double their share of the labor force overall.
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That would be because federal employees are predominantly affirmative action/DEI hires.
DEI black studies majors. Black women own HR and DEI. take them out and everything else is about average.
If so, that simply means that DEI gave them a job they didn’t deserve to begin with.
Sorry.
Sigh, more flushable “nuze”.
Shove it, NYT writers (not journalists, just writers). Your employer’s standards existeth not. As such, all of you are perfectly qualified for your jobs.
Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the Education Department,
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Why did we have one in the first place.
The New York Times ^ | Aug. 31, 2025 | Erica L. Green. Explains it all.
Well yeah cause he’s like all racis’ and homophobic and hates all fureners. You know, typical neo naughtZee red neck and stuff....
That’s because they were over employed in positions they were not capable to do. Prove me wrong.
Delete everything before “the” and the question still applies.
Fifteen minutes later, the staff watched in tears and disbelief as she was escorted out of the building.
Couldn't be any other way.
Sure does.
FTFY
Black women make up 12 percent of the federal work force, nearly double their share of the labor force overall.
and why is that?
How many of the affected black women were employed in black set aside jobs?
That was news to me. My personal experience let me to believe it was quite a bit higher than 12%.
Why do you think NOBODY wants to deal with the Federal government employees?
In a rather successful effort to fool idiots
and buy votes, Democrats alienated the more productive
parts of our country.
How well are Federal level Democrats doing in elections these days?
“... Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit...”
It used to be women and children were the hardest hit. Now the New York Homosexual Times is refining it down to just black women. Excellent.
It’s getting better, slowly but surely we are gaining ground on the language and the filthy scum at the Times are capitulating. /spit
Exactly. First in (because of DEI), first out (because of incompetence).
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