{"id":238583,"date":"2017-06-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=238583"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:46:08","slug":"black-unemployment-rate-at-lowest-level-in-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/26\/black-unemployment-rate-at-lowest-level-in-17-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Unemployment Rate at Lowest Level in 17 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: &#8220;Black Unemployment Is at the Lowest Level it\u2019s Been in 17 Years.&#8221; Subheadline: Donald Trump is doing what Barack Obama never would. Unemployment among black Americans ages 16 years and over fell to 7.5% in May, its lowest level since December 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black unemployment has been on the decline since February &#8212; falling from (February) 8.1, (March) 8.0, (April) 7.9, and (May) 7.5%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unemployment for black Americans has historically hovered below their white counterparts. The Great Recession drove black unemployment near Great Depression-era levels, reaching 16.8% in March 2010.&#8221; That\u2019s smack-dab in the middle of the first term of Barack Hussein O.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062617-Unemployment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062617-Unemployment.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062617-Unemployment-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>&#8220;In August 2011, Congresswoman Maxine Waters called the black unemployment rate &#8216;unconscionable.'&#8221; We\u2019ll now be waiting on her comments about how Trump has helped blacks in that regard. Oh wait, Trump\u2019s not gonna get any credit for it, but I\u2019m just pointing out during the Trump presidency black unemployment is at its lowest level in 17 years. It\u2019s one of these you gotta whisper, &#8220;Don\u2019t tell anybody. Could really make people mad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Subheadline:  Donald Trump is doing what Barack Obama never would.  Unemployment among black Americans ages 16 years and over fell to 7.5% in May, its lowest level since December 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>RUSH: \"Black Unemployment Is at the Lowest Level it's Been in 17 Years.\" Subheadline: Donald Trump is doing what Barack Obama never would. Unemployment among black Americans ages 16 years and over fell to 7.5%in May, its lowest level since December 2000.<\/p><p>\"Black unemployment has been on the decline since February -- falling from (February) 8.1, (March) 8.0, (April) 7.9, and (May) 7.5%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unemployment for black Americans has historically hovered below their white counterparts. The Great Recession drove black unemployment near Great Depression-era levels, reaching 16.8% in March 2010.\" That's smack-dab in the middle of the first term of Barack Hussein O.<\/p><p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238623\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062617-Unemployment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\">\"In August 2011, Congresswoman Maxine Waters called the black unemployment rate 'unconscionable.'\" We'll now be waiting on her comments about how Trump has helped blacks in that regard. Oh wait, Trump's not gonna get any credit for it, but I'm just pointing out during the Trump presidency black unemployment is at its lowest level in 17 years. It's one of these you gotta whisper, \"Don't tell anybody. Could really make people mad.\"<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black Unemployment Rate at Lowest Level in 17 Years - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/26\/black-unemployment-rate-at-lowest-level-in-17-years\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Black Unemployment Rate at Lowest Level in 17 Years - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Subheadline: Donald Trump is doing what Barack Obama never would. 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