While American cities have generally been hiring hotbeds, driving overall employment growth, there are 43 metro areas nationwide that have fewer jobs now than five years ago. A number of these metro areas have shrinking populations and increasing poverty rates.
WHITE House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was forced to backpedal on her claim that the Obama administration only created 195,000 jobs for African-Americans after it emerged the figure was closer to three million.
Companies desperate to turn struggling operations around have cut jobs left and right, but the government issued a stern warning against further layoffs.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders apologized after falsely declaring that President Trump has created three times as many jobs for African-American workers as former President Barack Obama did during his two terms in office.
