African-American Unemployment Hits a Record Low in December

The jobless rate for African-Americans fell to the lowest level since 1972, when the government first began tracking data

Ford workers at the assembly line at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, on Oct. 27 2017. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

The jobless rate for African-Americans declined to 6.8 percent nationally in December.

After the financial crisis of 2008, the African-American unemployment rate surged, reaching 16.8 percent in 2010. It has gradually declined since then.