Black male unemployment shoots up under Trump #WeTriedToTellYa
#RolandMartinUnfiltered
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🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. added 143,000 jobs in January, fewer than economists expected.
While the overall unemployment rate inched down to 4% from 4.1%,
The Black unemployment rate rose to 6.2 percent.
For black men, it jumped to 6.9-percent.
Black women stayed at 5.4-percent.
Morgan Harper, the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the American Economic Liberties Project spoke with Roland Martin about the uptick in Black male unemployment.
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| 0:34.9 | The U.S. added 143,000 jobs in January, fewer than the economists expected. |
| 0:40.0 | While the overall employment rate inched down to 4.5% to 4.1%, the black unemployment rate |
| 0:46.5 | rose to 6.2%. For black men, it jumped to 6.9%. Black women stated 5.4%. |
| 0:54.8 | Morgan Harper, the Director of Policy and Advocacy |
| 0:57.4 | at the American Economic Liberties Project, |
| 0:59.6 | joins us from Columbus, Ohio. |
| 1:01.6 | And Morgan, I'm sure those black men |
| 1:03.9 | who were just trumpeting Trump, |
| 1:06.4 | wonder what they got to say now. |
| 1:09.3 | Well, I mean, yeah, that is the biggest jump that we saw in these numbers is black men unemployment. |
| 1:15.1 | The other group that we saw jump was Asian Americans. |
| 1:18.8 | You know, as I say, every month, Roland, when we talk about these numbers, it's important |
| 1:22.3 | to note that it is just a spot in time. |
| 1:25.2 | So we have to kind of see if this ends up being a trend. But certainly |
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