Amid a broad slackening of the U.S. labor market, and in spite of campaign promises to save “Black jobs,” the unemployment rate for Black workers is surging under President Donald Trump.
According to seasonally adjusted data published Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the unemployment rate for Black Americans rose from 7.2 percent in July to 7.5 percent in August, now at its highest level since October 2021. This compares to 4.3 percent for the wider labor force and is more than double the rate for white Americans (3.7 percent).
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence and not a designed attack on the black middle class. Right?
I mean it’s not like government jobs, the post office and teaching jobs were the fields that essentially built the black middle class.
Oh wait…
So could it possibly be that the decades long attack on those fields and its execution under this administration is just the culmination of a 40+ year set piece?
I mean it can’t be a duck if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck and has duck DNA. Right?
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Huge rug pull. Lots of black Americans voted because he told them he alone could make it better.
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By Hugh Cameron – U.S. News Reporter:
Amid a broad slackening of the U.S. labor market, and in spite of campaign promises to save “Black jobs,” the unemployment rate for Black workers is surging under President Donald Trump.
According to seasonally adjusted data published Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the unemployment rate for Black Americans rose from 7.2 percent in July to 7.5 percent in August, now at its highest level since October 2021. This compares to 4.3 percent for the wider labor force and is more than double the rate for white Americans (3.7 percent).
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Just a coincidence. Right?
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence and not a designed attack on the black middle class. Right?
I mean it’s not like government jobs, the post office and teaching jobs were the fields that essentially built the black middle class.
Oh wait…
So could it possibly be that the decades long attack on those fields and its execution under this administration is just the culmination of a 40+ year set piece?
I mean it can’t be a duck if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck and has duck DNA. Right?
Huge rug pull. Lots of black Americans voted because he told them he alone could make it better.