“Just before COVID, we had … the lowest unemployment ever recorded for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. The lowest for women in nearly 70 years.”
Tim Scott
U.S. Senator, R-S.C.. the GOP response to Biden. Claim dated 28 Apr 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisExaggerated
What PolitiFact found
This is exaggerated. The rate for each demographic started creeping up prior to the pandemic, and the pandemic made it worse.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tim Scott (U.S. Senator, R-S.C.) made this claim around 28 April 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 April 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Exaggerated”.
Tim Scott has 15 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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