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“666,000 teachers have been laid off already since March.”
Joe Biden President-elect of the United States. in a virtual roundtable with frontline workers. Claim dated 18 Nov 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False

In short

Joe Biden (President-elect of the United States) made this claim around 18 November 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 November 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.

Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.

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