“We’ve created more jobs in the first eight months of my administration than any president in American history — total number of jobs created.”
Joe Biden
president. a CNN town hall. Claim dated 21 Oct 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
The raw numbers support Biden’s claim of record job gains on his watch, but the talking point glosses over the reality that the U.S. economy remains about 5 million jobs under its pre-pandemic peak.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 21 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 October 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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.
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