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Black male unemployment shoots up under Trump #WeTriedToTellYa

2025-02-14 News & Politics
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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. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjXB7nX8bL2U2sje8d212Yw/join Support #RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork 👉🏾 Use Cash App by visiting Stripe https://buy.stripe.com/7sI3ccgYyfSQ8y45kl 👉🏾 PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ [email protected] Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox 👉🏾 http://www.blackstarnetwork.com #RolandMartinUnfiltered and the #BlackStarNetwork are news reporting platforms covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

Top Comments (10)

@tupactargaryen 2025-02-14

Where’s all the raccoons that voted for Trump? I haven’t heard from them in like 2 months.

333 117 replies
@Widkey 2025-02-14

If you're black don't expect to get priority on the hiring line.. Trump has made open discrimination fashionable again.

211 71 replies
@melvinhhcp3615 2025-02-14

We are now repeating the Black economic trends of the early 1970's & late 1980's. When the u.s. economy starts showing signs of decline, Black men always got hit the hardest...

191 30 replies
@loiscobb687 2025-02-14

Why is anyone surprised?! What's the saying "When everyone else has a cold, black people have the flu"

162 15 replies
@whiskyjames4200 2025-02-14

Lots of black men wirk for the Federal Government too!

149 12 replies
@veronicawhite6655 2025-02-14

Please let this be a motivation for black people to create their own 🙏🏽👊🏽

127 14 replies
@JackDazey 2025-02-14

That was the plan all along. Take away economic power.

66 4 replies
@cmonmaan9817 2025-02-14

all I know is EVERY REPUB admin since RR has left the economy in either a recession or in shambles check their stats

35 3 replies
@JZN_Murk 2025-02-14

Love the Black Owned shirt!

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@edwardj.7007 2025-02-14

He just fired tons more this week.

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