Women Responsible for All Job Gains Among Black People Last Month
LatestLast month, the unemployment rate among black people fell more than half a percentage point, entirely thanks to job market gains by black women. There are a few bad joke conclusions to draw from this — first, we could Jack Welch it by saying that the black women became employed in large numbers as a deliberate, concerted group effort to make the President look good. Second, something from a sassy drug store greeting card about women working harder than men. And third, we could totally pin this statistic to our rapidly growing END OF MEN Pinterest board.
September wasn’t a bad month to be an unemployed person. It was the least bad month in quite some time, actually — unemployment dipped below 7.8% for the first time since Barack Obama has taken office. The economy has added about 4.6 million jobs now, so we’ve just barely replaced the ones we hemorrhaged during the recession. Mitt Romney, who loves America, could not be more disappointed with these positive numbers about more Americans working.