“The 3.7% unemployment rate is "nearly a 50-year low in our country.”
Joe Biden
U.S. President. White House. Claim dated 13 Sep 2022.
FactCheck.org rated thisMisleading
What FactCheck.org found
The unemployment rate was as low as 3.5% in January and February of 2020. The last time the rate was lower than that was when it was 3.4% for nine straight months between 1968 and 1969.
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In short
Joe Biden (U.S. President) made this claim around 13 September 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 September 2022, 10 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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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