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He tweeted that he had recorded the lowest African-American unemployment, poverty and crime rates in US history
It has risen sharply due to the huge impact of the coronavirus crisis on the US economy
And this has disproportionately affected African Americans – their unemployment rate is 46% higher than the overall figure
But it’s worth saying that it went as low as 55% in September of last year – the lowest figure since the US Department of Labor began collecting these statistics in years. 1970
Before the coronavirus crisis, there had been a steadily declining trend in African American unemployment under President Trump
But it’s a trend that started under President Barack Obama, who saw the rate drop from 126% to 75% during his two terms from 2009 to 2017
The average African American household income is almost 60% lower than that of white households, with stagnant growth under President Trump, latest statistics show
In 2019, the latest data available, the African American poverty rate was 188% – which is the lowest on record, beating the previous year, since the official count started in the 1960s
The US Census Bureau calculates poverty by judging that if the total income of a family is less than the needs of the family, then every person in that family is considered to be in poverty
Black poverty also fell under President Obama and was 218% in 2016 – his last full year in office
There are crime statistics collected by the FBI, but there is no comprehensive data categorized by race
On the whole, violent crime has come under President Trump’s control, continuing a trend that began after a peak in 1991
When you look at the number of African Americans arrested – which may give some indication – you can see that arrests have declined in recent years
The latest available data is from 2018 and shows 2,115,381 African Americans have been arrested, according to FBI statistics
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