Unemployment among black Americans ages 16 years and over fell to 7.5 percent in May, its lowest level since December 2000.
Black unemployment has been on the decline since February — falling from (February) 8.1, (March) 8.0, (April) 7.9, and (May) 7.5 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(Black) lives matter
Are George Soros and “The Resistance” are really out there putting all those poor disadvantaged minorities to work? The Do-Gooders doing good?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
No, it is those mean, evil Businessmen.
I have an honest question for the purposes of these kind of statistics …
What is “a black” American ? I mean, Elizabeth Warren became a “Native American” in order to gain Ivy League College admission … so who and what defines a “black American” ? Are ALL Muslims “black” ? Or just the ones from Somalia ? How about Hindus ? I’ve seen a LOT of really dark-skinned dot-Indians … but they are almost ALWAYS employed in some of the top-earning jobs in America. Are native Hondurans “black” ? Again … their equatorial exposure to intense sunshine has given them a large amount of melanin.
Does one need to trace their heritage directly from a slave ship in order to be “black” ?
How about we stop ALL race-baiting whatsoever ? And STOP keeping statistics according to skintone. But … that would put everyone on a level playing field … and we just can’t have that now can we ?
Kenji, I have a message for you – straight from Black Lives Matter:
“RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!!!!!!!!
As has been stated before :
If the GOP can just peel off 15-20 percent of the black vote it’s nuclear winter for the Dems. Trump AND pence AND Ryan need to be making speeches to black audiences regularly.
You ask some good, if not completely inconvenient questions, for the left. This race/minority baiting is soooo destructive to our western cultures.
Blacks, gays, muslims, illegal aliens…
All fundamentally meaningless to the DNC except as vehicles to manipulate to get and/or maintain power for the DNC.
Also, I don’t believe there are any employment stats issued by any governments that are based in any kind of reality any longer. There are countless people who need work that governments gladly do not count because it’s ALL about propaganda, diversion and maintaining control now. Where I do not doubt Trump has made a difference, I simply don’t believe the numbers anymore.
Ha, now if they would just list ‘gangsta’ as an official occupation, unemployment rates for inner-city youths of color would plummet to near zero.
That is one of the reasons the Left went Nuclear on Milo Y. The sensitive, caring, progressive Left freely yell racist slurs like Oreo and Uncle Tom at any black person that dares step off the plantation. Thomas Sowell, Senator Tim Scott, Congresswoman Mia Love and thousands of others have been reviled, mocked and threatened by the Black Grievance Industry desperately trying to maintain their iron grip on “their minority.”
Conservative Republicans don’t need a majority of a minority group. We only need to break a significant section off the monolithic block. It will fall over by itself.
Black have been manipulated and used by the Democratic Party since Johnson. Obama deliberately sowed racial divisiveness. Painting people as victims of past wrongs does not help them move forward. Hopefully Blacks will respond positively to Trump’s jobs initiatives.
Making it great.
Not to be too cynical but how much of that can be legitimately tied to Trump’s election and policies?
Could someone more knowledgeable in economics fill me in on if that kind of turnaround is doable and measurable in such a short time?
Rand Paul has been trying to do that. He has been trying to draw attention to the inequities black people face in the justice system, and he also told conservatives to tone it down on voter ID. He was the sanest bestest option in 2016.
“Not to be too cynical but how much of that can be legitimately tied to Trump’s election and policies?”
0%. There is no evidence Trump’s policies have created a single private sector job.
America’s Hat, you say:
“Not to be too cynical but how much of that can be legitimately tied to Trump’s election and policies?”
Not a lot. The black unemployment rate peaked in 2010 and has been dropping fairly steadily since then. The rate of decrease didn’t change with President Trump’s election.
See
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000006
for details.
Best regards,
w.
“he also told conservatives to tone it down on voter ID.”
A lot of blacks are insulted that white people believe them too stupid to get photo ID. I have often wondered why Americans consider Hispanics some kind of special retard while in Canada they are just regular working people. Race politics is stupid. Our special retard groups who need not be mentioned are different than the US. Perhaps we each cling to a retard group so liberals can play racial politics. Who and what the retards are really doesn’t matter. Only the political perceptions matter.