“The U.S. is “the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple” during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
What FactCheck.org found
The U.S. counts a laid-off worker as “unemployed” even if the layoff is expected to be temporary — while many other countries do not.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Bill Clinton (Former President of the United States) made this claim around 18 August 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 August 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy--KNOFFbI
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