“The United States is “the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple” since the coronavirus pandemic began.”
What PolitiFact found
Clinton was accurate for the broadest comparison, which includes a 20-nation selection of OECD nations between January 2020 and June 2020. The rate in the U.S. was 3.1 times higher in June than in January.
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In short
Bill Clinton (Former president) made this claim around 19 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 August 2020. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Bill Clinton has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- newspressnow.comhttps://www.newspressnow.com/news/national_news/election2020/transcript-bill-clintons-dnc…
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