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Since 1981, federal budget deficits have increased under Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump, while deficits have declined under Democratic presidents Clinton and Obama. The economy ran surpluses during Clinton's last four fiscal years, the first surpluses since 1969.
When the peak pandemic period (April 2020 to October 2021) is excluded, Black unemployment averaged 5.86 percent under Biden and 6.65 percent under Trump. Black homeownership averaged 42.2 percent ...
In 2003, prior to the significant expansion of subprime lending of 2004-2006, the unemployment rate was close to 6%. [52] The wider measure of unemployment ("U-6") which includes those employed part-time for economic reasons or marginally attached to the labor force rose from 8.4% pre-crisis to a peak of 17.1% in October 2009.
The New York Times reported some of the causes and consequences of higher black unemployment in February 2018: "Even at the low of 6.8 percent recorded in December [2017] — it climbed back to 7.7 percent in January — the unemployment level for black Americans would qualify as a near crisis for whites. And the relative gains have not erased ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics released its January jobs report Friday, and it showed the black unemployment rate shot up to 7.7 percent. New job report statistic disproves Trump's talking point on ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday reported that the Black unemployment rate rose month-over-month, from 6.5% to 7.1%. No other racial or ethnic group measured by the BLS saw unemployment ...
For example, for President Obama, the computation takes the 145.815 million jobs of February 2017 and subtracts the 133.312 million jobs of February 2009 to arrive at the 12.503 million figure. Four of the top five presidents in terms of total jobs added were Democrats.
Black unemployment, however, remained much higher than the overall unemployment rate of 4.4%, which in June inched up from a 16-year low. And, it was greater than the white unemployment rate ...