Down Doobie Doo Down Down: Black Unemployment
Surprised? (HT Large Bill, and reinforced at Willisms, who referenced National Review)
George W. Bush is laying a claim to be the President who did the best job creating jobs for blacks. Currently, black unemployment is 9.4%, which is significantly lower than the 10% it averaged in the Clinton years. The current rate is also much lower than the average black unemployment rate over the past 30 years, which is 12.4%.
Some on the left have complained that even if the black unemployment rate is dropping, there is still too great a gap between the unemployment rate for blacks and for whites.
If this complaint were sincere, those who made it should be pleased to learn the gap between black and white unemployment, which stands today at 4.9 points, is smaller than the 5.5-point average gap of the Clinton years and the 6.9-point average gap of the past 30 years.
Not bad for “Bull Connor,” eh, Charlie Rangel?
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UPDATE: Willims has more (much, much, more) on ecoomic and other improvements among blacks while George Bush has been president. He covers crime, education, home ownership, jobs, and entrepreneurship–go there already. And keep in mind that much of this has been achieved while many of our larger urban areas are run either incometently, corruptly, or both.
