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For Black Americans, labor force participation hovered between 62% and 63% before the pandemic under Trump. After returning to nearly 62% under Biden in January 2022, the metric has...
- Checking misleading claims on Black wage gains under Trump
The same pattern holds for Black men. For Black men,...
- PolitiFact | Black poverty, unemployment set record lows on Trump’s ...
Donald Trump was president when Black poverty and...
- Checking misleading claims on Black wage gains under Trump
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High employment under Trump led to minorities experiencing the largest income gains. Real median income grew by 7.9% for Blacks in 2019.
The record low for the Black or African American unemployment rate, 4.8%, was set under Biden in April 2023. That beat the Trump-era low that was a record at the time, 5.3% in August 2019...
Trump’s campaign told PolitiFact that the current Black unemployment rate of 6.1% in May is higher than Trump’s low of 5.3%. Black unemployment has matched or been lower than 5.3% in five...
The same pattern holds for Black men. For Black men, inflation-adjusted weekly earnings rose from an average of about $290 under Obama to about $295 under Trump, an increase of roughly 1.8%. Once ...
Donald Trump was president when Black poverty and unemployment reached record lows. However, Trump leaves out that his opponent, President Joe Biden, saw both of those record lows surpassed...
Once again, wage growth was higher under Biden. Inflation-adjusted weekly wages for Black men rose from $295 under Trump to $312 under Biden, up 5.7 percent. The white-Black wage gap widened under ...
