(July 18, 2024 at 4:27 pm)Lek Wrote: Immediately before the pandemic the black unemployment rate was 6.1%. As of now it is 6.3%. in the first quarter of 2020. Blacks earned an average of $303 per week compared to $293 a week in the first quarter of 2024. Throw in the effect of out of control inflation and it's no wonder so many are going to Trump.
Fact check: Biden, not Trump, has the record lows for Black unemployment and poverty
The record low for the Black or African American unemployment rate, 4.8%, was set under Biden in April 2023. That beat the Trump-era low that was a record at the time, 5.3% in August 2019 and September 2019. (A cautionary note: This official data series goes back only to 1972.)
The most recent Black or African American unemployment rate, for May 2024, is 6.1%. Though that is a clear uptick from the 2023 record, it is low by historical standards. And it is the same as the rate under Trump in February 2020, just before the Covid-19 pandemic caused unemployment to skyrocket
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