“The Harris/Biden administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating job statistics. ... The new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the administration padded the numbers with an extra ... 818,000 jobs that don’t exist.”
What FactCheck.org found
Each year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revises its monthly employment figures, which come from a survey of employers, based on more comprehensive data it obtains later from state filings. It's a routine revision.
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In short
Donald Trump (Former President of the United States) made this claim around 21 August 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 August 2024, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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