Trump has decided it's a good idea to go after Jay-Z
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... bug-racismJones than asked the rapper about Trump’s claim, made repeatedly on Twitter, to have dropped African American unemployment to record lows.
“Does he have a point,” Jones asked, “that maybe the Democrats have been giving us good lip service, but no jobs. He may say terrible things, but putting money in our pockets. Does that make him a good leader?”
Jay Z answered: “No, because it’s not about money at the end of the day … money doesn’t equate to happiness. It doesn’t. That’s missing the whole point. You treat people like human beings … that’s the main point.”
On Sunday morning, the president tweeted: “Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!”
Welp, aside from him picking two black guys, and implying Jay-Z isn't aware of the record low unemployment rate (if you watch the interview, it's quite apparent they both know, and it's not the point) , there's the rate over the past decades.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006The last major increase started in 2008. It starts heading down later in 2011, and keeps going down. It generally follows the civilian unemployment rate, though
tends to be is always higher (last measured at 6.8 and 4.1, respectively).
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRA ... categories Maybe instead of bragging about the result of a trend which started 7 years ago, Trump could compare total unemployment and black unemployment, and ponder if he could do anything to close that gap.
Here's a story about how the gap was closer than ever back in June, 2017:
http://www.businessinsider.com/black-wh ... gap-2017-7At least he didn't go for the angle about black unemployment under slavery... so, there's that.
A quantum state of signature may or may not be here... you just ruined it.