Red got a tax cut.
Real Americans did.
The Census report shows that black unemployment, at 5.5% in August, is the lowest it’s been since records started being kept in 1972.
The gap between black unemployment and white unemployment is also the lowest on record.
Both Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans now have near-record low unemployment rates.
The Washington Post recently analyzed Labor Department data and found more than 86% of the jobs added since the end of 2016 went to minorities. Out of 5.2 million new jobs, minorities accounted for 4.5 million.
The Daily Signal notes:
Among full-time, year-round workers, the number of women increased by 1.6 million and the number of men increased by about 700,000 between 2017 and 2018.”
The median real income for female-headed households with no spouse rose 5.8% from 2017 to 2018. For married couples, there was no change. The poverty rate for female-led households shrank from 26.2% in 2017 to 24.9% in 2018.The Census Bureau further shows that the number of people living in poverty fell by 1.4 million people in 2018 alone, with the poverty rate dropping from 12.3% to 11.8%, its lowest since before the 2007 financial crisis. That decline was led by female-headed households, minority ones in particular .