“Says that under his presidency, the unemployment rate has “been below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years in American history.”
What PolitiFact found
Under Biden, unemployment has been below 4% for 16 straight months. But his 50-year time frame excludes two longer stretches when unemployment was below 4%.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 28 June 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 June 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/28/remarks-by-president…
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