Originally posted by Politico
Bernie Sanders says 'real unemployment' rate for African American youth is 51 percent
Rated: Mostly True
[b]Sanders said that for African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent." His terminology was off, but the numbers he used check out, and his general point was correct -- that in an apples-to-apples comparison, African-American youth have significantly worse prospects in the job market than either Hispanics or whites do. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it Mostly True.Trump misleadingly puts black youth unemployment rate at 59 percent
Rated: Mostly False
Trump says the unemployment rate for black youths is 59 percent.
The unemployment rate is a widely used term with a specific definition: It refers to the percentage of jobless people in the workforce who are actively seeking employment. In May, the unemployment rate for blacks ages 16 to 24 was 18.7 percent, or less than one-third of Trump’s claim.
Ruined they are. [/B]
Woah...now this is noteworthy.
Reading the Trump article, they even show how Trump may have been closer with his number than Bernie with his:
"Sinclair told us Trump’s percentage probably comes from a Bureau of Labor Statistics statistic called the "employment-population ratio." This is a figure that gauges employed people, age 16 and older, as a percentage of the entire population of adults.
In May, the bureau said the employment-population ratio for blacks ages 16 to 24 was 41.5 percent. Flipped over, that would mean that the unemployment ratio - although such a statistic is not published by the bureau - would be 58.5 percent. That’s pretty close to the 59 percent figure Trump cited, Sinclair noted."
Trump's and Sanders' intentions were both similar: supporting policies to help our poor and disenfranchised, within specific racial demographics, get jobs.
Thumbs up to both Trump and Sanders. Thumbs down to the clearly biased articles from Political Fact check. In their defense, they usually do a VERY VERY damn good job of remaining unbiased. But the individual authors will clearly have biases.