“When former President Donald Trump “left office, we had more people unemployed percentage-wise than the Great Depression.”
What FactCheck.org found
When Trump left office in January 2021, the unemployment rate was 6.4%. BLS has estimated that the unemployment rate during the Great Depression peaked in 1933 at 24.9%.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tim Walz (Democratic vice presidential nominee) made this claim around 6 October 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 October 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Tim Walz has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj3Drb8Xrx4&t=581s
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