Fact Checker: Trump’s outdated spin on the black unemployment rate
By Salvador Rizzo Salvador Rizzo Reporter for The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow March 26 at 3:00 AM “Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!” “African American unemployment has reached its lowest rate ever recorded — ever! Ever! Remember ‘What do you have to lose?’ What do you have to lose, right? ‘What do you have to lose?’ I said.” “You look at our economy. You look at jobs.
A different data set from the Labor Department that goes back to 1947 shows that the annual unemployment rate for “negro and other races” went as low as 4.5 percent in 1953 — far below the 6.5 percent yearly average for black unemployment in 2018. And the unemployment rate for African Americans tells a limited story by itself. What kinds of jobs are these? Are they pushing up median incomes?
The White House did not respond to our questions. But Trump’s advisers address the black employment situation as part of a 700-page report issued March 19. The White House report also takes a silver-lining approach to the 2018 unemployment rate for African Americans. The Economic Policy Institute called this recent trend “troubling” and noted that “the rise in black unemployment did not happen at a time when white unemployment also increased sharply.”
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