Joint Center Quoted in The New York Times in Article on High Black Unemployment

Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad was quoted in The New York Times in an article discussing Black Americans’ extremely high unemployment rates during President Donald Trump’s terms.

From the article: “Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank focused on issues affecting Black Americans, said the numbers were cause for alarm. “If the national unemployment rate was this high, people would be talking recession,” Mr. Asante-Muhammad said, “but for Black America that’s normalized, which is problematic.”

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