By Salvador Rizzo Salvador Rizzo Reporter for The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow March 26 at 3:00 AM “Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!” “African American unemployment has reached its lowest rate ever recorded — ever! Ever! Remember ‘What do you have to lose?’ What do you have to lose, right? ‘What do you have to lose?’ I said.” “You look at our economy. You look at jobs.
A different data set from the Labor Department that goes back to 1947 shows that the annual unemployment rate for “negro and other races” went as low as 4.5 percent in 1953 — far below the 6.5 percent yearly average for black unemployment in 2018. And the unemployment rate for African Americans tells a limited story by itself. What kinds of jobs are these? Are they pushing up median incomes?
The White House did not respond to our questions. But Trump’s advisers address the black employment situation as part of a 700-page report issued March 19. The White House report also takes a silver-lining approach to the 2018 unemployment rate for African Americans. The Economic Policy Institute called this recent trend “troubling” and noted that “the rise in black unemployment did not happen at a time when white unemployment also increased sharply.”
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Facts are becoming irrelevant.
aaronsojourner Hey shocker, the WH cherry picked yet another number to boast about an economy they did not create.
aaronsojourner Trump is actually correct. Look at the data, it supports and validates his claims. Not surprised people refuse the facts and twist the words to reflect something that it's not, aka Fake News.
Minority employment rates have been hammered by every democratic politician for the last fifty years. Get out of here with your double standards, we are distrusting you more and more every day with each biased article.
People in the USA would be starving if they were depending on Trump to eat. He is a liar and a conman.
Does anyone believe anything that comes out of the mouth of this sick-o liar? Maybe the Trump terrorists, Trump Philistines and his buddies in Russia believe him, but real Americans aren't that stupid.
Gotta keep playing the hits so people keep clicking!
More FakeNews from WaPo. You must be depressed to know Trump will have FOUR MORE YEARS!
Fake news
Did Mueller speak to plagiarist Meredith McIver, who “has heard everything, and taken good notes,” said trump? But if it turns out that Meredith is another John Barron, that’s a much bigger story – about how the press helped give us trump in ’16.
Hey guys. Guys. Forget that Russia stuff. We are back to racism. Remember he’s a racist. LOL get bent.
Don the Con has little to brag about so he lies and exaggerates!
nobody believes anything you say.
potus's talking points tell us little about economic reality. They tell us about politics.
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WalkAway Blexit Jexodus The are of the DNC media us freaking out, terrified that people are leaving the Democratic Socialists as they lurch towards total secular tyranny.
You have nothing. Your days as propaganda mongers are over. Lurn2Koad
Tired of your lies.
Does anyone else notices his hand signal?
Like a broken record, gibberish that is I should say. Not as smart as a fifth grader.
You're right he needs to update the numbers, they're better now.
After the Mueller report fiasco, you guys don't get to fact check things anymore.
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Fact check by you, who were saying that Trump is a Russian spy? HAH!
Fact Checker: The Washington Post lied to you liberals for 2 years - and you all fell for it
Really ? How unlike him.
You are reading the WaPo, where the agenda is ALWAYS more important than the truth, even when it may cost us $250 mill.
We should look at black crime rate then. 13/50
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