In Trump's Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-federal-work-force-black-women.html

https://archive.ph/26jME

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.
By Erica L. Green
Aug. 31, 2025 Updated 8:58 a.m. ET

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-year- 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.

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1. In TACO's mind that is a double benifit.