Trump gains ground, much to liberals’ horror

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BET founder: Trump's economy is bringing black workers back into the labor force
  • The growing U.S. economy and improving business environment is bringing black workers back into the labor force, BET founder Robert Johnson tells CNBC.
  • "When you look at that, you have to say something is going right," Johnson says.
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[paste:font size="3"]the nation's first black billionaire, spoke before Friday's jobs report, which showed nonfarm payrolls rose 103,000 in March, falling well short of the 193,000 gain economist were expecting.

In January, the Labor Department reportedthe unemployment rate among black workers was at its lowest since at least the early 1970s, when the government began tracking the data. The unemployment rate for black Americans spiked in January and then fell in February. The rate was unchanged in March at 6.9 percent.

"When you look at that [January report], you have to say something is going right," said Johnson, a Democrat and founder and chairman of The RLJ Cos.

"You have to take encouragement from what's happening in the labor force and the job market," Johnson told "Squawk Box." "When you look at African-American unemployment, ... you've never had African-American unemployment this low and the spread between African-Americans and whites narrowing."

Johnson said that means the jobs market is "soliciting employees who have been out of the labor force, some of it based on discrimination, some of it based on changes in education, access and technology changes."

Additionally, the business environment in the U.S. is also good, Johnson said. "I believe if you take into account the Trump tax cut, you take into account the drop in unemployment, ... and you take into account that interest rates are fairly stable" the economy is going to grow, he said.

"I believe the economy is on a strong growth path," he added.

President Donald Trump has touted the black unemployment rate both on Twitter and his State of the Union address in January. Critics say Trump can't take full credit because black unemployment had been on the decline before Trump took office.

Johnson has said he has known Trump for years. Johnson met with the then president-elect in 2016 and said he believes the president wants to work with African-Americans and all Americans to boost the economy.

Johnson also spoke again about a job offer he received from Trump. He said he didn't take the unspecified position because he didn't want a government job and not because of the president's policies.
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Robert Johnson was one of those that didn't like Obama,enough said



From Jan 2018

http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-appr...d-white-americans-sinking-despite-what-783864


The survey found that Trump's approval rating among black Americans has not doubled—it has dropped. He's also lost ground with white voters, with non-college educated whites—his best group in 2016—down 10 points to 56 percent approval, and college-educated whites down 8 percent to 40 percent approval, The Atlantic reported citing the same poll.

The results, which were reviewed by the Times, showed Trump's approval rating among "black America" had dropped 5 points, from 20 percent to 15 between February 2017 and last December.
 
A more recent poll (March 2018) of Trump approval from black voters

http://www.courant.com/politics/cap...-gender-gaps-among-voters-20180307-story.html


Donald Trump, whose job approval rating is now hovering at 38 percent, engenders dramatically different attitudes among American voters depending on their race and sex, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll.

Trump gets a thumbs-down rating from 86 percent of black voters and 68 percent of Hispanic voters, but white voters are evenly split 47-48 percent between disapproval and approval of his performance, the national poll found.
 
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