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LITTLE ROCK — Kia Mills kept her latest diploma in a bag stuffed in her closet. The expensive piece of paper had little use as she uploaded yet another résumé while sitting on her gray couch on a recent gray day, a lone candle lit on her coffee table.Neither could comprehend how much desperation had replaced their ambition. McShane had two master’s degrees and had worked her way up to middle-management jobs in the state and federal government over more than seven years. She had been out of work since June 2025. Mills had left her administrative job about nine months earlier, thinking a newly minted master’s degree in criminal justice would make it easier to find a full-time job with a nice salary. Instead, they found themselves fitting a description afflicting more people across the United States: Black. Educated. Unemployed. Over the past year, economists and civil rights leaders have observed the unemployment rate between Black and White Americans widening at a nearly unprecedented clip. And an unexpected group is finding itself left behind.
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