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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 11:16 am
(January 19, 2018 at 11:00 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Regardless of how the credit is apportioned, let's be constructive and use unemployment data and the nations relaxation of cannabis laws to commute sentences of low level drug offenders (regardless of race) en masse, and restore voting rights too.
Good chance to re-habituate large numbers of prisoners here and I'd hate to see the chance not even fucking recognized through the miasma of the fucking political blame/credit haze and fog.
Lemons to lemonade opportunity here for a considerable number of inmates, let's jump on this !!!
I applaud any such effort. Good luck with that under the current administration and Congress, though.
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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 11:18 am
That shouldn't be surprising. We just had a black president. Thanks Obama.
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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 11:35 am
(January 19, 2018 at 7:33 am)alpha male Wrote: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/05/black-un...d-low.html
Quote:Unemployment among black workers is at its lowest since at least the early 1970s, when the government began tracking the data.
The black unemployment rate of 6.8 percent in December was the lowest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking it in 1972, a year in which the rate ranged from 11.2 percent to 9.4 percent. In the 45 years the data has been tracked, the unemployment rate for black or African-American workers aged 16 years and older has never fallen below 7 percent.
Damn. Trump really is a rock star. Hell yeah.
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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 11:43 am
(January 19, 2018 at 11:18 am)Chad32 Wrote: That shouldn't be surprising. We just had a black president. Thanks Obama.
Not only a black President, a REAL president nobody had to apologize for.
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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 11:50 am
(January 19, 2018 at 11:43 am)Brian37 Wrote: (January 19, 2018 at 11:18 am)Chad32 Wrote: That shouldn't be surprising. We just had a black president. Thanks Obama.
Not only a black President, a REAL president nobody had to apologize for.
Yeah. He may have his flaws, but he was popular with everyone who wasn't the republican base. Trump is the exact opposite
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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 11:55 am
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(January 19, 2018 at 10:18 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Must be nice to get a tailwind from your predecessor's economy, eh?
Especially when the predecessor inherited a record headwind from a guy on your own team.*
*Of course I do realize Trump isn't really on anyone's team but his own.
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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 12:12 pm
So the article was about unemployment. It made no mention of Trump but it immediately de-evolved into an anti-Trump rant.
Question. Would you all be happier with a higher unemployment rate?
Question. Is it a bad thing for the economy to have business investment increasing dramatically?
Question. Do you benefit from an improved business investment within the borders of the USA?
Question. How many of you will pay more income taxes? For me, my income tax liability will go down next year.
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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 12:21 pm
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(January 19, 2018 at 12:12 pm)Jane2d Wrote: So the article was about unemployment. It made no mention of Trump but it immediately de-evolved into an anti-Trump rant. LOL, I understand why you might think it came out of nowhere, however..it's just another one of alphas demon-hole scraping data mines.
Quote:Question. Would you all be happier with a higher unemployment rate?
Nope
Quote:Question. Is it a bad thing for the economy to have business investment increasing dramatically?
Nope.
Quote:Question. Do you benefit from an improved business investment within the borders of the USA?
Nope.
Quote:Question. How many of you will pay more income taxes? For me, my income tax liability will go down next year.
Neither I nor my business will pay -any- federal taxes, effectively, under the new scheme..in this, my situation is very much like the people for whom this tax holiday was created. All it will take is a little legal razzle dazzle - no actual change to my business required. Many of my socioeconomic peers (and..conveniently, my customers) however..will take a hit. So..I suppose, if thats the context of "increased business investment"..from the q up above, then maybe I will be affected. I kindof depend on them maintaining a certain level of disposable income. This hit was, ofc...famously intentional and punitive, for the crime of living in a liberal island and probably not voting for the God Emperor. Unfortunately, my business model only works in those liberal islands...where people and property have high net worth and taxes are set to follow suite.
Fuck yall, got mine.
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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 12:22 pm
Jane2d Wrote:So the article was about unemployment. It made no mention of Trump but it immediately de-evolved into an anti-Trump rant.
The article was about unemployment. Alpha Male is about Trump.
Jane2d Wrote:Question. Would you all be happier with a higher unemployment rate?
No.
Jane2d Wrote:Question. Is it a bad thing for the economy to have business investment increasing dramatically?
No.
Jane2d Wrote:Question. Do you benefit from an improved business investment within the borders of the USA?
Yes.
Jane2d Wrote:Question. How many of you will pay more income taxes? For me, my income tax liability will go down next year.
You might want to run a poll for that.
It's nice that your liability will go down next year, but there's a lot more to the economy than your or our final tax bills. For instance there's the question of whether enough revenue will be raised from economic expansion to make up for the loss of revenue from the lower taxes and the increased spending on the military and other funding the GOP favors. Historically it usually hasn't worked out like that. We had a great economy under Bush, until the record-breaking crash. There's more to a sound economy than constantly 'priming the pump'.
GOP members keep running on getting the deficit down, but that's never what they do when they're in office.
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RE: Black Unemployment Rate at Record Low
January 19, 2018 at 12:29 pm
As usual the WLB is full of shit and his asshole followers are even worse.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...rd-decline
Quote:Unemployment among black Americans has been declining pretty steadily after coming close to 17 percent in 2011. Over at the Washington Post, Philip Bump points out that unemployment numbers for black Americans have fallen relatively consistently for the past several years. By the time Trump entered the Oval Office in January 2017, the black unemployment rate was at 7.8 percent.
“From January to December 2017, the unemployment rate among black Americans fell 1 percentage point,” Bump explains. “During the same period in 2016, it fell the same amount. In 2015, it fell 1.9 points. The previous year, it fell 1.5 points. The year before that, it fell 1.8 points.”
But A/M is totally wrong about one thing. When they were slaves the unemployment rate would have been ZERO. What republicunts call "the good old days!"
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