Quote:For example black and white unemployment in Detroit is pretty close to each other. Unless you add in the school age kids if blacks to bloat your numbers.

 

Michigan's black unemployment rate much higher than white rate, but why?

"The unemployment rate for black workers in Michigan is 18.7 percent, compared to 7.5 percent for white workers in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a recent report from Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank."

 



 

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The rate is much higher than whites and there is nothing wrong with pointing it out. Trump associates the massive unemployment levels with a lack of available jobs and opportunity. Michigan as a state, and specifically its urban centers (where the majority of black communities are) have been hit the hardest by the global trade deals established over the past 24 years. Trump's more protectionist trade policies coupled with decreased regulation and lower taxes for businesses could help restore inner cities that have been devastated by outsourcing, corporations leaving the United States for cheaper labor, and inability for small businesses to compete with major corporations.

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