{"id":34104,"date":"2019-11-04T23:36:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T03:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=34104"},"modified":"2019-12-03T00:12:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T04:12:36","slug":"liberals-ignored-high-black-unemployment-under-obama-wont-celebrate-record-lows-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2019\/11\/04\/liberals-ignored-high-black-unemployment-under-obama-wont-celebrate-record-lows-under-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Ignored High Black Unemployment Under Obama, Won\u2019t Celebrate Record Lows Under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics posted the lowest overall black unemployment figure ever recorded<\/strong> at 5.4 percent<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to a Project 21<\/a><\/strong> analysis, reported in a press release<\/a><\/strong> last week after the jobs report was released, this was the sixth record-low black unemployment rate achieved during the Trump presidency. The previous lowest rate \u2013 7.4 percent<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 was achieved at the end of the Clinton administration in December 2000.<\/p>\n

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In extensive remarks, excerpted for the release, Project 21 member Derryck Green<\/a><\/strong> addressed the racial allegations that have been made against President Trump (which Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper<\/a><\/strong> often calls the \u201cweirdest\u201d<\/a><\/strong> anti-black behavior)\u00a0despite the Trump administration\u2019s policies having been so helpful to black economic progress.<\/p>\n

Derryck said it\u2019s something liberal critics simply cannot justify:<\/p>\n

Since at least the early 1970s, when racial demographics were first incorporated into the unemployment statistics, we\u2019ve known that American blacks have suffered periods of chronically high unemployment.<\/p>\n

Even during the economic boom of the 1990s, blacks still endured double-digit unemployment for most of the decade. Black unemployment dropped for a couple of years during the early 2000s, but it later found its way back into the double digits.<\/p>\n

The economic policies of our first black president exacerbated black unemployment during the recession, helping black unemployment to reach or exceed 16 percent on 11 occasions<\/a><\/strong>. Obama Administration officials told us that high national unemployment, high black unemployment and a depressed economic environment in which businesses hired fewer employees because people stopped looking for work was the \u201cnew normal.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But, since 2016, black unemployment<\/a><\/strong> has significantly and consistently declined. Under President Trump, black unemployment reached an all-time low on several occasions. Black unemployment dropped below six percent for the first time in May 2017. Twice this year \u2013 in August and September \u2013 black unemployment dropped and held steady at 5.5 percent. In October, black unemployment is 5.4 percent \u00a0\u2013 the lowest rate ever recorded.<\/p>\n

During the presidential campaign, President Trump asked<\/a><\/strong> blacks \u201cwhat the hell do [we] have to lose?\u201d by voting for him. One answer to that question is now high black unemployment rates.<\/p>\n

I think this is important to note. During the period of high black unemployment under Obama, the former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus \u2013 Emanuel Cleaver \u2013 said<\/a><\/strong> that \u201cwith [such high black] unemployment, if we had a white president, we\u2019d be marching around the White House\u2026 President [Obama] knows we are going to act in deference to him in a way we wouldn\u2019t to someone white.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, we have a white president who is perpetually and falsely accused of racism. Yet this \u201cracist\u201d president has done more to lower black unemployment than his immediate \u2013 and black \u2013 predecessor. How do liberals square that circle?<\/p>\n

They can’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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