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> Or the greater access to jobs blacks and other minorities have gained in this time. The black unemployment rate - 13% according to the Federal Reserve - is
by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> Or the greater access to jobs blacks and other minorities have gained in this time.
The black unemployment rate - 13%
according to the Federal Reserve - is higher than it was a half century ago.
- refurb 6y agoBlack unemployment was 5% back in November. Lowest in 40 years. Of course it went up when the gov’t said businesses have to shutdown.
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- matthewmacleod 6y agoThis is wildly misleading because it’s obviously a terrible time to make any useful historical comparisons. At the end of 2019, unemployment rate among Black people in the US was about 5.5%.
- ChomskyNormal4m 6y agoIf saying "now" is "terribly misleading" - the Federal Reserve says black unemployment was higher from 2010 to 2012 then it is now.
- matthewmacleod 6y agoAs was the overall unemployment rate! Was there anything that happened just before 2010 that might’ve caused that?