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Ayanna Pressley: “The unemployment rate is 4.3%, not evenly distributed for…”

Featuring: Ayanna Pressley, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 7th Congressional District

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Rep. Pressley Presses to Amend Deceitful GOP Bill that Ignores Unemployment Crisis

Published | Video Starts at 00:25

Just like you had that fraudulent big beautiful bill, which was really big and ugly. A big betrayal of a bill. Let's, let's name these things accurately, because given The unemployment rate is 4.3%, not evenly distributed for all communities, disproportionately hurting black women, black families, black workers, the rate is 7.3%, while for white workers is at 3.7%. Now, I don't want anyone's livelihood disrupted. No one. But we have to acknowledge the disparate impact here. It's a stark contrast, a five alarm fire. (00:25–00:46)

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Asserts that unemployment rates are disproportionately higher for black communities compared to white communities.

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