There are good reasons to secure the border, but protecting workers from competition isn’t one.
President Trump liked to boast about record-low black unemployment, which sank to an impressive 5.3% in August 2019. Now it’s President Biden’s turn to brag.
“Black unemployment is at a record low of 4.7%,” the White House tweeted on Friday. Among black women, the jobless rate is an even lower 4.2%, also a milestone. Moreover, Reuters reported that the gap between unemployment rates for blacks and whites has “narrowed to 1.8 percentage points, the lowest since the Labor Department began tracking it half a century ago.”
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.
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