Trump’s outdated spin on the black unemployment rate
“The black unemployment rate tends to be significantly higher than the overall U.S. unemployment rate. At 7 percent in February, it was nearly twice the U.S. jobless rate of 3.8 percent. It’s important to keep in mind that this official statistic for black unemployment — which Trump keeps talking about as ‘the lowest in the history of our country’ — is less than 50 years old, dating to 1972.”