“The fact is that he has in fact, worked on this in a way that he’s going to be the first president of the United States to leave office, having fewer jobs in his administration than when he became president. Fewer jobs than when he became president. First one in American history.”
What Washington Post found
Biden’s statistic holds up, as Trump ranks in last place either in terms of raw numbers or percentage change. But measuring job growth by presidential term is simply not a useful measure.
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In short
Joe Biden (former vice president) made this claim around 29 September 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 October 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
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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