“Two years ago this week, 18 million people were out of work. Now the — that number is under 1.6 million.”
What FactCheck.org found
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people “out of work” — or officially unemployed — in the U.S. in January 2021 was about 10.2 million, and the number in December 2022 was 5.7 million.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (U.S. President) made this claim around 20 January 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 January 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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/speeches-remarks/2023/01/21/remarks-by-president…
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