{"id":1194,"date":"2026-06-28T10:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/four-black-women-nine-degrees-unemployment-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T10:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:07:37","slug":"four-black-women-nine-degrees-unemployment-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/four-black-women-nine-degrees-unemployment-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Black Graduates Struggle for Employment Despite Multiple Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the president pledged to protect &#8220;Black jobs,&#8221; recent policy shifts have inadvertently created new hardships for the Black middle class, as evidenced by a growing disparity in employment outcomes. The promise of economic security has, for some, failed to materialize into tangible opportunities in the current market.<\/p>\n<p>In Little Rock, the reality for individuals like Kia Mills stands in stark contrast to the expectations that follow academic achievement. Mills keeps her most recent diploma stored away in a closet, viewing the expensive credential as largely ineffective. Instead of utilizing her education, she spends her time on a gray couch during overcast days, methodically uploading r\u00e9sum\u00e9s in hopes of finding work, her environment marked by the quiet glow of a single candle on her coffee table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having earned nine degrees between them, four Black women continue to face significant barriers to securing stable employment amidst a worsening economic divide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[954,230,399,953,955],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-black-middle-class","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-job-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fastblogtheme.com\/pressnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}