William L. Clay: “Full employment means everyone. Currently, the national average unemployment rate is 8.2 percent.”

While President Trump recently tried to take credit for December unemployment numbers, showing African American unemployment at its lowest recorded level, this too is part of a long-term trend that started under the Obama Administration.

In every single budget request the Trump Administration has put out, it has proposed massive spending cuts to programs that allow public housing authorities to address their most pressing capital needs.

This proceeding is just a sequel to that very bad act. And the taxpayers will get the bill.

I do not believe that we are no longer living in a society of poverty, that we are no longer free from economic decay.