This Week in ESG and Impact Investing

Black Enterprise ’s recent article, “Pivotal Moves to Help Black Women Rebound Stronger From Massive Job Cuts,” offers a timely and necessary look at the accelerating employment crisis facing Black women—and, importantly, what can be done about it. The article grounds its analysis in hard data, noting the sharp rise in unemployment among Black women in 2025 and the concentration of job losses in sectors where Black women are disproportionately represented. It moves beyond surface-level advice by emphasizing financial triage, skills realignment, entrepreneurship, and long-term resilience as core strategies for recovery. Creative Investment Research was cited in the piece for our analysis showing that this surge in unemployment is not the result of labor-force exits , but of actual job losses and weak hiring , particularly in education, professional services, healthcare, and public-sector roles. That distinction matters—because it points directly to policy failures and sector-specific ...