{"id":65637,"date":"2018-01-08T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65637"},"modified":"2018-01-08T07:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:05:37","slug":"more-of-that-trump-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65637","title":{"rendered":"More Of That Trump Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment among blacks &#8211; after reaching very\u00a0 persistent and long-lasting highs during the Obama regime &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2018\/01\/05\/black-unemployment-falls-to-lowest-level-on-record\/?utm_term=.ede111c47bfa\">has dropped to a record low<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Black unemployment fell to 6.8 percent in December, the lowest ever recorded by the U.S. Labor Department since it began tracking the black unemployment rate in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Economists say it&#8217;s a sign the recovery from the Great Recession is finally starting to help a wider swath of the U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p>During the aftermath of the financial crisis, black unemployment soared to 16.8 percent in 2010, meaning more than\u00a01 out of every\u00a06 African Americans was looking for a job but could not find one. The rate has steadily declined since, breaking the prior all-time low of\u00a07 percent that was set in 2000 during the dot-com boom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The writer &#8211; and, by extension, the\u00a0<em>WaPo<\/em> &#8211; does their level best to ensure the impact is softened with lots of anti-Trump factoids.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the\u00a0<em>WaPo<\/em>, after all.\u00a0 \u00a0Trump&#8217;s popularity among African-Americans remains microscopic.<\/p>\n<p>Although I have to wonder; would a black American be any more likely to admit being a Trump fan than a Minneapolitan be to admit they owned a gun?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment among blacks &#8211; after reaching very\u00a0 persistent and long-lasting highs during the Obama regime &#8211; has dropped to a record low: Black unemployment fell to 6.8 percent in December, the lowest ever recorded by the U.S. Labor Department since it began tracking the black unemployment rate in 1972. Economists say it&#8217;s a sign the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65643,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637\/revisions\/65643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}