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Federal job cuts last year hit one group the hardest — Black women. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Monday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with a journalist 

 who lost their jobs about how they are doing a year later — financially and emotionally.  

Economists say Black women's unemployment is a warning sign for the whole economy. What are you seeing in your own community? Job losses don't just affect women who lose their jobs, they hit families. How have job cuts touched your family or community? 

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Federal job cuts last year hit one group the hardest — Black women. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Monday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with a journalist who interviewed some of the women who lost their jobs about how they are doing a year later — financially and emotionally.  

A person who was laid off carries a box outside an office building.

Black women bore the brunt of federal job cuts

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