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Just like the workers on his construction projects, Donald Trump wrote the Black community a bad check during the campaign,” ...
While overall unemployment remained fairly steady at 4.2 percent, the unemployment rate for Black people rose sharply to 6.4 percent, the highest rate for all major worker groups.
But the black unemployment rate is about 3 points higher than the national average. This makes the road to success steeper, and problems that develop along the way tend to compound. The thing is ...
RASCOE: When President Joe Biden said that last February, Black unemployment was 5.7%. A month later, it hit a record low of 5%, though still higher than the overall unemployment rate of 3.5%.
On Friday, the unemployment rate surprisingly fell to 13.3% in May from April's record of 14.7%, the Labor Department said, which was the highest since the Great Depression.
First, you see that the black unemployment rate has recovered more slowly than the white unemployment rate. Alone, that would seem to indicate that black people are having a harder time ...