Urban League report says Trump administration is harming Black Americans’ chances at American Dream
The annual report says policy rollbacks and civil rights changes are widening racial gaps and leaving Black Americans farther from economic security.
- On Thursday, the National Urban League released its annual "State of Black America" report, describing Black Americans' economic and political prospects as worsening under President Donald Trump's administration.
- Marking its 50th anniversary, the report echoes frustration from the inaugural 1976 edition, which the New York Times described as "a profoundly depressing document" laying out persistent economic disparities between Black and white Americans.
- The study cites the Trump administration's overhaul of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alongside the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, as rollbacks of civil rights policies.
- National Urban League CEO Marc Morial termed the administration's private-sector initiatives an "economic assault," warning, "While they have targeted and focused on Black Americans, these attacks are going to impact broadly working Americans."
- The civil rights community must consolidate resistance and build economic infrastructure not dependent on the "goodwill of any one administration," the report says, urging action at the ballot box and through consumer choices.
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