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“The much-trumpeted job growth in the last year was ENTIRELY part-time jobs.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential candidate. a post on X. Claim dated 31 Mar 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True

What PolitiFact found

The claim is accurate for the particular one-year period Kennedy cites, but the general pattern under President Joe Biden has been for part-time jobs to account for about a quarter of all new job growth, not 100%.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (presidential candidate) made this claim around 31 March 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 April 2024, 26 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has 55 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 27 of them false or fake, 27 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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