Ruby wrote:AGREE 100 percent
Hold off on the parade...
White House admits making false claim on black employment.
Sanders sort of set the record straight late Tuesday on Twitter.
In short, Obama did not create only 195K jobs for African Americans, in fact the number was 3 Million.
"In fact, the most dramatic drop in black unemployment came during the Obama administration...as it fell from 16.8% to 7.8%."
yet also true
... "it is also true that black workers have continued to gain as the rate has dropped to 5.9%, but that is still nearly double that of whites."
To my way of thinking, proper wording should be that jobs were created during the tenure of (fill in the blank), as opposed to saying (fill in the blank) created jobs.
a rising tide and all that...
"Sanders linked to a tweet by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (whoever they are), which claimed responsibility for the 'miscommunication'."