From the LA Times, about 2007, lest I be called a racist:
“But it’s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the “Magic Negro.”
According to Valerie Jarett, giving credit this morning to Obama for the employment figures, looks like the Magic Negro is still working his magic.
"The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers."
Even the "long-term discouraged workers" are rejoining the workforce...
Kanye effect?
Only if they are given the opportunity to read about the Rasmussen report. And we all know that the LSM will avoid reporting on it!
But Russia!
And this is real, factual unemployment numbers instead of that Obama manipulated pretend crap.
Build the wall!
Manard G. Crebs “Work”!
Over rated.
As of May 2, 2010, the left-leaning Gallup poll had Obama at 48% approve; 45% disapprove; and 7% no opinion (http://news.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval.aspx), even though the MSM treated him like a saint. I suspect that the disapproval rating was actually closer to 50%, but that some of the poll participants did not want to say so because they did not want to be perceived (or self-perceived) as racist.
More than the unemployment rate, if he can get wages rising it could really make him a force to be reckoned with.
GREAT numbers! Go Trump!
If you have a job, - Thank President Trump.
And there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth — in the CNN control room, and at WaPo, and at NYTimes, and at NBCNews, and at ABCNews, and at CBSNews, and at DNC HQ, etc.
8 years ago:
The unemployment rate for Blacks was 15.5 last month. This is according to the latest report on the nations employment situation released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly Employment Situation report. This rate decreased from April when unemployment in the Black community stood at 16.5. For the nation as a whole unemployment fell slightly to 9.7 in the month of May. Among whites unemployment was 8.8; among Latinos unemployment was 12.4. Comparable April 2010 figures were 9.9; 9.0; and 12.5 respectfully.
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/black-employment-and-unemployment-in-may-2010/