“Our economy created over 6.5 million new jobs just last year, more jobs in one year than ever before in the history of the United States of America.”
Joe Biden
president. his State of the Union address. Claim dated 2 Mar 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
Biden accurately cited the raw number of jobs created and the fact that it was bigger than any previous year for which data is available. However, looking at the percentage increase, it's not.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 2 March 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 March 2022. Its rating was “Half True”.
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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