Most GOP-devastating statistic in Bill Clinton's DNC speech confirmed by fact checker
4 months ago

Most GOP-devastating statistic in Bill Clinton's DNC speech confirmed by fact checker

Raw Story  

Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday used part of his speech at the Democratic National Convention to hit back at the notion that Republican presidents were better on the economy than Democratic presidents. Democrats 50, Republicans one.” Washington Post fact checker Philip Bump decided to fact check Clinton's claim and found that it was 100 percent correct. "Under the three Democrats — Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden — there was a cumulative increase of 50 million more people working between the starts of their terms and the ends. Nonetheless, Bump decided to try to make an apples-to-apples comparison of job growth under former President Donald Trump and under President Joe Biden by excluding the period where the COVID-19 pandemic hit the economy and put millions of Americans out of work.

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'Anything they don't like they call fake!' Biden cracks up at GOP attacks on jobs report
2 months, 2 weeks ago

'Anything they don't like they call fake!' Biden cracks up at GOP attacks on jobs report

Raw Story  

President Joe Biden on Friday had a laugh at the expense of Sen. Marco Rubio after the Florida Republican claimed that numbers in the latest jobs report were "fake." While taking questions from reporters in an impromptu White House briefing, the president was asked what he made of Rubio's comments about the purportedly "fake" jobs numbers showing that the American …

FACT FOCUS: A look back at false and misleading claims made during the the Democratic convention
4 months ago

FACT FOCUS: A look back at false and misleading claims made during the the Democratic convention

Hindustan Times  

The Democrats' star-studded, four-day convention drew to a close as Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the party's nomination for president. Days later, asked by a reporter upon arriving in Atlanta whether he would sign a national abortion ban, Trump shook his head and said “no.” But just a month earlier Trump suggested he’d support a national ban on abortion around …

FACT FOCUS: A look back at some of the questionable claims made during the Democratic convention
4 months ago

FACT FOCUS: A look back at some of the questionable claims made during the Democratic convention

Associated Press  

The Democrats’ star-studded, four-day convention drew to a close as Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the party’s nomination for president. Trump’s views on an abortion ban VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS said Trump would “ban medication abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without Congress.” THE FACTS: While Trump has said in the past that he would support a …

Fox News host fact-checks Trump's claim of a 'jobs whistleblower' with real numbers
4 months ago

Fox News host fact-checks Trump's claim of a 'jobs whistleblower' with real numbers

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump spent the past few days talking about a mythical "whistleblower," who gave "real" economic data that shows the jobs rate and unemployment data and that it was way off from what President Joe Biden quoted. Fox News host Neil Cavuto explained there's nothing untoward or secret about it on his Thursday show after Trump repeated the …

'Fact-challenged' RNC shredded — including 2 'biggest lies' from Trump himself
5 months, 1 week ago

'Fact-challenged' RNC shredded — including 2 'biggest lies' from Trump himself

Raw Story  

CNN shredded several "fact-challenged" statements on the first night of the Republican National Convention — including two of the "biggest lies" which came from former President Donald Trump, who didn't actually speak live at the event. Dale also took down a pre-recorded video that claimed Trump signed the largest tax cut in history — "he did not," Dale said. Dale …

Lousy jobs report? Not at all
3 years, 3 months ago

Lousy jobs report? Not at all

Raw Story  

"Disappointing" is all over the news Friday about the August jobs report. Under President Biden, the economy has added an average of 636,000 jobs per month, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics "all employees" report CES0000000001 shows. On Donald Trump's watch – before the pandemic – the economy added only 188,000 jobs per month. On Trump's watch, the economy lost …

AP FACT CHECK: Hyperbole from Biden, GOP on state of economy
3 years, 7 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Hyperbole from Biden, GOP on state of economy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and House Republicans alike are revising history when asserting that the new administration set records in U.S. job creation — either the best ever or among the worst, depending on the vantage point. He has created the most jobs in his first three months than any other president — about 1.5 million — but that’s …

USD 2 trillion 'American Jobs Plan' as ambitious as space race, says US President Biden
3 years, 8 months ago

USD 2 trillion 'American Jobs Plan' as ambitious as space race, says US President Biden

India Today  

President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for a sweeping use of government power to reshape the world's largest economy and counter China's rise in a $2 trillion-plus proposal that was met with swift Republican resistance. The president's "American Jobs Plan" would put corporate America on the hook for the tab as the government creates millions of jobs building infrastructure, such …

US Election 2020 Key Issues: Jobs, the economy and where Trump and Biden stand
4 years, 1 month ago

US Election 2020 Key Issues: Jobs, the economy and where Trump and Biden stand

Firstpost  

While President Donald Trump touts the country’s pre-pandemic economy, Joe Biden is focussing on building back better, promising to ‘create millions of good-paying jobs’ At the beginning of October 2020, a staggering 23.2 million people were on unemployment benefits in the United States. While President Donald Trump touts the country’s pre-pandemic economy, claiming he is the candidate to pull it …

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