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[ChomskyNormal4m]

> Or the greater access to jobs blacks and other minorities have gained in this time.

The black unemployment rate - 13% according to the Federal Reserve - is higher than it was a half century ago.

[matthewmacleod → ChomskyNormal4m]

This is wildly misleading because it’s obviously a terrible time to make any useful historical comparisons. At the end of 2019, unemployment rate among Black people in the US was about 5.5%.

[ChomskyNormal4m → matthewmacleod]

If saying "now" is "terribly misleading" - the Federal Reserve says black unemployment was higher from 2010 to 2012 then it is now.

[matthewmacleod → ChomskyNormal4m]

As was the overall unemployment rate! Was there anything that happened just before 2010 that might’ve caused that?

[refurb → ChomskyNormal4m]

Black unemployment was 5% back in November. Lowest in 40 years.

Of course it went up when the gov’t said businesses have to shutdown.