After the financial crisis of 2008, the African-American unemployment rate surged, reaching 16.8 percent in 2010. It has gradually declined since then.
African-American Unemployment Hits a Record Low in December
The jobless rate for African-Americans fell to the lowest level since 1972, when the government first began tracking data
Ford workers at the assembly line at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, on Oct. 27 2017. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
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Emel Akan
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Emel Akan is a senior White House correspondent for The Epoch Times, where she covers the policies of the Trump administration. Previously, she reported on the Biden administration and the first term of President Trump. Before her journalism career, she worked in investment banking at JPMorgan. She holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
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