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African-American unemployment hits lowest rate in history
AP/American Thinker ^
| January 5, 2018
| Thomas Lifson
Posted on 01/05/2018 6:54:33 AM PST by GonzoII
It has taken less than one year of Trump regulation-cutting, and just the prospect of tax reform, to create the best employment prospects for African-Americans in history, according to employment data just released this morning. Christopher Rugaber of the Associated Press reports:
The unemployment rate remained 4.1 percent for a third straight month, the lowest level since 2000, the Labor Department said Friday.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2017review; africanamerican; blackpeople; blackvote; incometaxes; maga; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja; trends; trump; trumpeconomy; trumpwinsagain; unemployment; winning
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MAGA!
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:54:33 AM PST
by
GonzoII
To: GonzoII
Dems are in a panic!...................
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:57:38 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: GonzoII
The Dims plan to hold seminars to explain the evils of being able to keep more of your own money. Maybe they can branch out and explain the evils of you having a job too.
Best election ever...
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:03:49 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
To: GonzoII
Expect crime statistics to never be mentioned this year.
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:05:13 AM PST
by
Bayard
To: GonzoII
Who writes these headlines that are nothing but confusing?
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:06:47 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: Red Badger
When Americans are able to earn a wage that meets their needs and begin to prosper in the economic machine of a free America (the greatest show on earth) they put on their thinking caps and walk toward the light of true libertarian-conservative thought. This thinking does not exist within the DNC but was a common thought in America until LBJ’s Great Society. Change is coming! MAGA! May God bless and keep President Trump, Vice President Pence and their families.
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:08:56 AM PST
by
Billyv
(Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
To: GonzoII
I don’t think it’s the lowest in history. Just the lowest in 40 years. Back in the 1920s before welfare, blacks had the lowest unemployment rate of any group.
To: Red Badger
Dems are in a panic!...................Nah! (Say it with me). Russia! Russia!!Russia!!!
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:11:38 AM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
To: GonzoII
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:11:53 AM PST
by
grimalkin
(You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible. - T. Sowell)
To: GonzoII
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:12:16 AM PST
by
rdl6989
To: WashingtonSource
I think the employment rate was very high in 1860
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:12:59 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
To: All
From the link to the WP:
"And the jobless rate for veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq fell to 3.3 percent, also a record low.
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:16:08 AM PST
by
GonzoII
("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
To: GonzoII
What fraction are on welfare? And what fraction are actually seeking employment? Two missing key figures.
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:17:30 AM PST
by
Neoliberalnot
(MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
To: WashingtonSource
I don’t think it’s the lowest in history. Just the lowest in 40 years. Back in the 1920s before welfare, blacks had the lowest unemployment rate of any group. Agreed, but I think you only have to go back to 1960 or so. LBJ’s “Great Society” boondoggle snatched defeat from economic victory for blacks:
- Losing Ground:
- American Social Policy, 1950-1980
- Charles Murray
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:18:58 AM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
To: WashingtonSource
Yeah, and looking at the chart in the article, the black-white unemployment gap got worse 2008-2012, then started to improve greatly in Obama's second term. This is only a continuation of that.
Trump's policies are great for the country as a whole, but I think it's ridiculous to claim credit specifically for improving black unemployment.
To: WashingtonSource
It may have been even lower before the 1860s.
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:23:10 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
To: GonzoII
CNN: African-American unemployment hits lowest rate in history. We go in search of the slave plantations Trump must have opened!
To: Red Badger
The Dems have to get this turned back around.
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:31:27 AM PST
by
bray
(Pray for President Trump)
To: GonzoII
Dis no good. I don’t wanna work. Jes’ wanna bang on the drum all day.
To: Red Badger
Dems are in a panic!...................
They are also saying "I don't believe this!!" The Fake News media said the Black unemployment would be at least 75%!!!
We have had at least one generation but I am saying it is at least 2 generations of a Fake News MSM mindset that sets the agenda for the American public!
Now, we know that some of our Dads, uncles and even aunts were not crazy when they shouted at the top of the lungs how crazy the reporters were on reporting the actual news in the 1950's and 1960's.. They never did back then and they are still doing even more Fake News MSM so today.
All Americans will continue to find jobs since the economy is growing and will continue to grow under President Trump's policies.
Talking about "Giant Sixth Grade Brain" journalists that do not even understand one thing about the basics of "Economics"!!!
We have had 28 years of the worst presidential leadership. The last 8 years were the most miserable for most folks.
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