{"id":650421,"date":"2026-05-18T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/650421\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:01:19","slug":"trumps-policies-are-unevenly-impacting-employment-in-the-dc-area-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/650421\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s policies are unevenly impacting employment in the DC area, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nonprofit, nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute found that as of March of this year, the D.C. region had about 115,000 fewer jobs in the region compared with before Donald Trump returned to office.<\/p>\n<p>Job losses directly and indirectly tied to President Donald Trump\u2019s policies have hit Black workers in the D.C. area the hardest, a new study found.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit, nonpartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/the-trump-agenda-has-harmed-the-d-c-regional-economy-other-regions-should-brace-for-impact-economic-data-from-the-first-year-of-the-presidents-second-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Economic Policy Institute<\/a> found that as of March of this year, the D.C. region had about 115,000 fewer jobs in the region compared with before Trump took office.<\/p>\n<p>That includes the 54,000 federal employees who have lost their jobs since Trump\u2019s return to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Many others were laid off from contractors who worked for government agencies, or had worked at nonprofits or research institutions that were receiving federal grants<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe share of regional population with a job fell by 3.2 percentage points in the D.C. region overall, and that\u2019s eight times the change for the U.S. as a whole,\u201d Nina Mast, an economic analyst and one of the study\u2019s authors, told WTOP.<\/p>\n<p>But the job losses were not evenly distributed. For Black workers in the area, the share of the population with a job fell by six percentage points, compared to 3.2% for the region as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a huge decline in the employment rate in just a year\u2019s time,\u201d Mast said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019re now seeing as a result that these actions have really pushed regional Black employment to pandemic-era lows,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said years of progress have been erased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were really making progress on the gap between white employment and Black employment in the D.C. region since the COVID-19 pandemic, but as a result of the Trump administration\u2019s actions, those gains have been reversed and Black employment is now much lower than it has been in recent years,\u201d Mast said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons Black workers were impacted at a higher rate is that they tend to make up a larger share of the public sector workforce than in the private sector, meaning any changes to government employment would disproportionately affect them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because the public sector has historically been a pathway to the middle class for workers of color who face labor market discrimination in the private sector,\u201d the study said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">Get breaking news and daily headlines delivered to your email inbox by signing up <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">\u00a9 2026 WTOP. 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