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Elizabeth Warren: “Unemployment rates for black Americans are up. It's jumped…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Jobs are Harder to Find, It's Not Just You. Let's Talk About the Economy Episode 4

Published | Video Starts at 02:01

I hear from recent grads all the time, where are the entry level jobs? But the problem they're having is not normal. Second, Unemployment rates for black Americans are up. It's jumped more in the last three months than it has in the last three years. But here's the other thing about the black unemployment numbers. For nerds like me who've been studying numbers like this for a while, you know that black unemployment can actually be a warning sign that things are about to get worse. (02:01–02:11)

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Asserts that black unemployment rates have increased significantly in the past three months.

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