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Katica Roy

STORY ANGLES - Focuses on systemic inequities: Highlights structural challenges in workforce, education, and economic systems, particularly affecting marginalized groups like Black women.

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
3
Latest publication
Sep 15, 2026
Outlet visibility, for fortune.com
Top 10K sites
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Katica Roy

    A tale of two economies: Why IKEA’s strategy is the antidote to the middle-class margin collapse | Fortune (opens the original)

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    In June, SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. At the same time, a very different economic reality was unfolding for millions of American households. We are currently living in a tale of two economies. In the first economy, the top 20% of U.S. households now drive roughly 60% of all consumer spending, buoyed by the wealth effect of rising asset values. In the second economy, the American middle class is experiencing a severe, structural margin collapse. In J

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Katica Roy

    A tale of two economies: Why IKEA’s strategy is the antidote to the middle-class margin collapse (opens the original)

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    In June, SpaceX's record-breaking IPO made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. At the same time, a very different economic reality was unfolding for millions of American households. We are currently living in a tale of two economies. In the first economy, the top 20% of U.S. households now drive roughly 60% of all consumer spending, buoyed by the wealth effect of rising asset values. In the second economy, the American middle class is experiencing a severe, structural margin collapse. In J

  3. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Katica Roy

    Black women’s unemployment rate fell. That’s not the good news you think it is | Fortune (opens the original)

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    Every month, the jobs report is reduced to two numbers: how many jobs the economy added and whether the unemployment rate went up or down. If payrolls rise and unemployment falls, the labor market is declared strong. If unemployment rises, it is declared weak. That shorthand is simple, but it is also incomplete. And right now, it is obscuring one of the most important signals in the U.S. economy. The unemployment rate can fall for two very different reasons. It can fall because people who were u

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