By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--January 8, 2018
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Years of steady hiring and economic growth have delivered a cumulative benefit for at least one group that hasn't always shared in America's prosperity. The unemployment rate for African-Americans fell to 6.8 percent in December, the lowest level since the government began tracking such data in 1972. The reasons range from a greater number of black Americans with college degrees to a growing need for employers in a tight job market to widen the pool of people they hire from.Now the black unemployment rate is of course higher than for the population as a whole. It's been that way for a very long time and when the day comes that this stops being true, that will be a wonderful development - provided, of course, it's caused by the black rate going down and not the overall rate rising to meet it. But what we can say from these numbers is what left-wing activists so often miss, but which should be obvious to people with basic common sense: The primary need of the black community is the same as the need of everyone else - a growing economy that offers more opportunity for people who need it. When you're part of a demographic that's already struggling, the worst thing that can happen to you is economic stagnation or contraction. The best thing that can happen is widespread prosperity, because that's going to create more opportunities for the people in your demographic group to improve their individual situations.
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