Trump said people of color ‘just set a record for new jobs.’ Data show the unemployment rate for Black Americans has barely changed in the last month

The white and Black unemployment rates differ by more than 5 percentage points — the widest gap recorded in the coronavirus pandemic recession to date.

By: JIM WATSON

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In a news conference from his private New Jersey golf club on Saturday, President Donald Trump lauded the US economy where people of color “set a record for new jobs.”

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