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Is it true that, right now, African-Americans and Latinos are experiencing the lowest rates of unemployment ever in USA history?

If this is true, why and how? If not, why not? Can you back this up with facts or statistics?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Just by companies creating more jobs at all levels due to the tax cuts.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Yep.

    Trump wins AGAIN

  • Bill
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    If they are then it's because they don't have an education. People with no education do not even meet the minimum educational requirements for over 95% of jobs.

  • Jas B
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    The economy has been recovering from the worst recession since the measures President Obama put in place started to take effect.

    Since then the economy has been growing and the unemployment rate falling since 2010, a trend which is still continuing.

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  • 3 years ago

    According to a report in January on NPR.org - Trump is right that African-American unemployment hit a record low in December. The unemployment rate for black Americans is currently 6.8 percent, the lowest level recorded since the government started keeping track in January 1972. And he's also right that the Hispanic unemployment rate is down a point over the last year — it was at 4.9 percent in December, down from 5.9 percent in December 2016. That is close to a record low, though it's also up 0.1 point from November.

    However, Trump is implying that he caused these low African-American and Hispanic unemployment rates.

    And a big problem with that claim is that those rates had been falling for long before Trump took office, and their declines don't appear to have picked up speed. This implies that there's nothing specific that Trump did to change this rate. Indeed, both of these rates have been falling relatively steadily since around 2010, early in President Obama's tenure in the White House. So have the unemployment rates for all races and ethnic groups tracked by the Labor Department. In general, these unemployment rates tend to move together. So while Trump called out the African-American and Hispanic unemployment rates, they haven't changed in any remarkable way, relative to other groups' unemployment rates.

    So, long story short...yes, the unemployment rates for these groups are Lower, but the unemployment rate in General is lower and the percentages in regards to that haven't changed that much. Also, the rates have been steadily decreasing since 2010.

  • 3 years ago

    You can look it up yourself quicker than just arguing about it.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Yes , Obama did nothing

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Impossible. They are all on welfare and stealing. How could they be employed.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    THANKS OBAMA!

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Nope, it’s another lie.

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