“The number of small businesses is up 30% compared to before the pandemic.”
Joe Biden
president. remarks at the White House. Claim dated 1 Dec 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Biden was citing a real statistic, but he described it incorrectly, in a way that exaggerated the scale of the economic gains.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 1 December 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 December 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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/statements-releases/2021/12/01/remarks-by-presid…
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