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> Trump says the unemployment rate for African-American youths is 59 percent. > In May, the bureau said the employment-population ratio for blacks ages 16 to 2

> Trump says the unemployment rate for African-American youths is 59 percent. > In May, the bureau said the employment-population ratio for blacks ages 16 to 24 was 41.5 percent. Flipped over, that would mean that the unemployment ratio - although such a statistic is not published by the bureau - would be 58.5 percent. That’s pretty close to the 59 percent figure Trump cited, Sinclair noted. > Mostly False Crazy

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> But there are differences between the ratio and the widely used unemployment rate, which Trump used in citing the percentage. > The unemployment rate reflects the number of jobless people who are actively seeking work as a percentage of the available workforce - defined as those who have jobs or trying to find one. > The May unemployment rate for blacks ages 16 to 24 was 18.7 percent. The rate for whites in the same age group was 9.1 percent. > The employment-population ratio is a far broader measure that counts all civilians in its equation - even those who don’t work and aren’t looking for a job. In the 16- to 24-year-old category, it includes high school and college students who are not employed or seeking jobs.