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Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts
By Marisa Peñaloza , Hansi Lo Wang Shirley Hopkins built careers for herself and countless other Black workers through a federal government job. While working in the National Institutes of Health’s human resources office, she became known as the “recruitment lady.” It wasn’t spelled out in her job description, but she made it her personal…