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Star Parker: "There's plenty to celebrate in the December Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing black unemployment at 6.8 percent, the lowest ever since they started reporting the data in 1972. ... Donald Trump was onto something when he asked blacks, during the presidential campaign, 'What do you have to lose?' ... Black unemployment peaked at 16.8 percent in March 2010 during President Obama's efforts to recover from the 2007-2008 economic collapse. But the irony is that the collapse was driven by government policies put in place to help low-income Americans to make housing purchases. ... An ocean of new regulations on financial services, enacted as part of the Dodd-Frank Act, was the Democratic Congress' answer to their own misdiagnosed analysis of what caused the collapse. As a result, we had a slower-than-normal economic recovery. These are the discussions we need today. How do we get out of the big government mindset that has been a drag on our economy and has perpetuated economic underperformance in low-income communities? In this context, Trump is right to boast. He is bringing badly needed new thinking on issues concerning low-income America. It's already making a difference."