Black mothers with young children are leaving the workforce at an alarming pace. Even if they’d prefer to have a job, mothers who stop looking for work are no longer counted as unemployed. Black women have been disproportionately exposed to cuts to the federal workforce and a retrenchment in corporate diversity initiatives. “Black women tend to be the ‘last hired, first fired,’ and they may be experiencing the harshest end of a broader trend.” Black mothers are more likely to be their family’s primary breadwinner, and even among married couples, Black women are the primary or equal earners in 60% of marriages, according to the Pew Research Center.