Thread by @dorianwarren

Racism is embedded in the rules of our economy. Black workers experience worse job outcomes compared to white workers in so-called good times and bad. The UR for Black women is 8.2%, for white women 4.8%. #JobsReport #BeyondtheNumbers 1/

https://twitter.com/Groundwork/status/1400862411444285441

There’s no evidence that how Black workers, particularly Black women, are experiencing the economy is really any different than before the pandemic struck. #BeyondtheNumbers 2/

We should measure recovery progress by whether Black men and women are getting what they need to thrive and if what they’re getting is on par with what white workers are getting. #BeyondtheNumbers 3/

If we can get there, that wouldn’t just be an economic recovery, it would be economic transformation. #BeyondtheNumbers 4/

Proposals from Groundwork to use the Black unemployment rate as a measuring stick for monetary policy are good ideas for systematically changing policy to offset the fundamentally anti-Black rules and outcomes of our economic system. #BeyondtheNumbers /5.