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7. Also, unemployment rate, and answer to tRump's question to Black people, "what have you got to lose?"

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:13 AM

5 hrs ago

Source: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/
More on how to produce this graph:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3539504

I drew the vertical yellow line free-hand -- that's about where January 2025 is, the beginning of tRump's reign

There is also a "Show Table" link below each graph:

Total unemployment rate from January 2025 to August 2025: 4.0% --> 4.3%
White unemployment rate from January 2025 to August 2025: 3.5% --> 3.7%
Black unemployment rate from January 2025 to August 2025: 6.2% --> 7.5%
. . . from 1.8X the white unemployment rate to 2.0X

The white unemployment rate isn't shown on the graph, but it's in the table

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