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-- 2012 --
On Twitter: Unemployment rate only dropped
because more people are out of labor force & have stopped looking for work.Not a
real recovery, phony numbers
September 7
@realDonaldTrump
-- 2015 --
September 30: Donald Trump says the
unemployment rate may be 42 percent
During the Sept. 28, 2015, media event, Trump described an unemployment rate in
the range of 5 percent as "such a phony number."
"The number isn't reflective," he said. "I've seen numbers of 24 percent -- I
actually saw a number of 42 percent unemployment. Forty-two percent." He
continued, "5.3 percent unemployment -- that is the biggest joke there is in
this country. … The unemployment rate is probably 20 percent, but I will tell
you, you have some great economists that will tell you it's a 30, 32. And the
highest I've heard so far is 42 percent."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-unemployment-rate-may-be-42-perc/
-- 2016 --
September 10: Trump and the Truth: The
Unemployment-Rate Hoax
“Don’t believe those phony numbers,” Trump declared during his victory speech
after the New Hampshire primary, in February. “When you hear 4.9 and
five-per-cent unemployment, the number’s probably twenty-eight, twenty-nine, as
high as thirty-five—in fact, I even heard recently forty-two per cent.”
His are statistics verified by gut feeling and bold, bald assertion. The
unemployment rate is not a hoax—it is subject to a range of checks and balances.
There are tens of thousands of people who are involved in constructing and
reviewing it each month, and seven decades of data from which to compare each
new figure with the ones that came before it.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-and-the-truth-the-unemployment-rate-hoax
-- 2017 --
March 10: The unemployment numbers candidate Donald Trump
assailed for months on the campaign trail as "phony" and fictional are
suddenly up to snuff.
The numbers haven't changed, nor has the Bureau of Labor Statistics'
methodology for compiling them, but with the jobless rate ticking down and
hiring on the rise, Trump is eager to point to the economic indicators as a
sign that his presidency has been a boon for the economy.
"I talked to the President prior to this and he said to quote him very
clearly: 'They may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now,' "
Spicer said Friday from the White House podium, hours after the government
announced 235,000 new jobs in February and a dip in the unemployment rate to
4.7% from 4.8%.
Spicer's response prompted inevitable laughter in a room of reporters mindful of
Trump's repeated smear of government-compiled jobs numbers.
... there's "no question" Trump's actions as president so far have helped
improve the economic outlook.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/10/politics/donald-trump-jobs-report-unemployment-numbers-phony/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottommedium
May 24: ... the jobless rate [has] been on a
steady decline since 2010. Further, unemployment hit
a previous nine-year low of 4.6 percent in December 2016 when President Obama was
still in office. It climbed back up to 4.8 percent in January, dipped to 4.7
percent in February, and to 4.5 percent in March 2017.
Few of the jobs companies are promising to create
in the U.S. can be attributed to a sudden renewed commitment to USA Inc.
inspired by Trump’s “America First” policies ... as usual with corporate
investments of this scale, such plans are typically months — or even years — in
the making, suggesting they long predate the presidential election.
https://www.snopes.com/everything-donald-trump-accomplished/
November 3: America's job market got back on
its feet in October.
The U.S. economy rebounded from the hurricanes and added 261,000 jobs, the best
performance of the Trump administration.
Unemployment inched down to 4.1%, the lowest since December 2000.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/03/news/economy/october-jobs-report/index.html
-- 2018 --
January 8: Donald Trump Can’t Take Credit
for Eight Years of Declining Black Unemployment
Joblessness among minorities has been on the decline for the better part of
eight years. That’s in part because a black president spent the first years of
his terms trying to save a mortally injured economy.
https://slate.com/business/2018/01/donald-trump-takes-credit-for-eight-years-of-declining-black-unemployment.html
February 2: The black unemployment rate in
the U.S., which President
Donald Trump claimed credit for reducing to a record low, jumped last month
by the most in almost six years.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/record-low-black-unemployment-trump-touted-jumps-most-since-2012
February 2: “Unemployment claims have hit a
45-year low. African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever
recorded, and Hispanic American unemployment has also reached the lowest levels
in history,” Trump said at the State of the Union earlier this week, pointing to
December unemployment rates.
The latest data shows the African-American unemployment rate at a seasonally
adjusted level of 7.7% in January. In December, it was 6.8%. (The Hispanic
unemployment rate also edged higher in January, to 5%.)
The unemployment rate, in reality, probably did not jump so drastically.
Measuring the jobless rate for one demographic group from month to month is
fraught with sample-size issues. That’s why in this case it’s better to look at
the trend.
And what the trend shows that the African-American unemployment rate, which
began to fall under President Barack Obama, has continued to fall under
President Trump.
Credit for that reductioncan go where it may. It’s just no longer the best in
history.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/death-of-a-trump-talking-point-african-american-unemployment-no-longer-at-record-low-2018-02-02
February 21: Donald Trump Might Be Cheering
Low Unemployment, But Here's Why Businesses Aren't
http://fortune.com/2018/02/21/donald-trump-unemployment-rate-business-jobs/
May 12: On unemployment, Trump was born on
third base, thinks he hit a triple
... a 3.9% unemployment rate is great news for the country and American workers,
though the metric does come with some caveats.
... Trump claiming credit for the news is a stretch. This is a great example of
someone being born on third base and thinking they hit a triple: the jobless
rate has been steadily declining since President Obama ended the Great Recession
in his first term. It’s great that the trend has continued over the year and a
half Trump has been in office, but no one should try to make the case that the
Republicans’ tax breaks and deregulation crusade are somehow responsible for
creating the trend that began in 2010.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/unemployment-trump-was-born-third-base-thinks-he-hit-triple
June 1: President
Donald Trump on Friday
(June 1) broke with decades of protocol and commented publicly about the highly
anticipated jobs report data 69
minutes before they were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The jobs data come out once a month, and often can lead to massive buying or
selling trends on Wall Street depending on how the information is received. It
is extremely closely held and kept under tight control until it is released at
8:30 a.m. on the first Friday of each month. The chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisers is traditionally given the report the day before it is
released, and it can often be shared with the president after that time. But the
president -- and other administration officials -- never tip their hand about
what the numbers reveal.
... giving the market any kind of clue ahead of time is extremely unusual. A
federal rule from 1985 prohibits any federal worker from commenting on the jobs
report for at least one hour after its release, though the Trump administration
has breached that standard a few times by commenting less than an hour after the
release. But they never appeared to comment before the report came out like
Trump did on Friday.
http://www.nola.com/national_politics/2018/06/trump_unemployment_numbers_jun.html
June 1: CNN panel explodes over Trump’s
attempt to take credit for the black unemployment rate
Contributor Catherine Rampell said the president received too much praise for
the numbers.
“These are continuations of the exact same trends we have seen. The unemployment
rate has been falling pretty much in a straight line for all of these
demographics we are talking about, again, this is the business cycle at work.
You can’t credit Trump,” Rampell said.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/cnn-panel-explodes-trumps-attempt-take-credit-black-unemployment-rate/
June 1: The black unemployment rate just hit
a record low, but there’s a catch
President Trump regularly boasts about the falling black unemployment rate, but
it doesn’t tell a complete story.
.... While it’s undeniable that the rate has hit a new low, it is also true that
black unemployment began declining during the Obama administration and has been
falling steadily for
the past several years.
Trump hasn’t reversed those gains, but that doesn’t mean he can claim full
credit for them either.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/1/17417762/black-unemployment-rate-record-low-may-jobs-report
July 15: How Underemployment Is Affecting
The Job Market
While unemployment has hit record lows, there's another number that also gets a
lot of attention — underemployment. Around 33 percent of college graduates are
underemployed.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/15/629212924/the-call-in-underemployment
August 15: AP FACT CHECK: Trump on black
unemployment
https://www.apnews.com/d7a35c3d0ad342ad8b3a041226f06746
September 10: Fact check: Is Trump right on
a 100-year record for GDP and unemployment?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-gdp-growth-unemployment-rate-tweet-fact-check-2018-09-10/
September 18: Fact Checker ... The ‘Trump
economy’ vs. the ‘Obama economy’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/18/trump-economy-versus-obama-economy/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.650c01a8815b
October 5: U.S. Unemployment Rate Drops To
3.7 Percent, Lowest In Nearly 50 Years
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/05/654417887/u-s-unemployment-rate-drops-to-3-7-percent-lowest-in-nearly-50-years
October 30: Two Charts Show Trump's Job
Gains Are Just A Continuation From Obama's Presidency
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/10/30/two-charts-show-trumps-job-gains-are-just-a-continuation-from-obamas-presidency/#53106a941af3
December 20: Trump's Food-Stamp Policy Will
Only Make Poverty Worse
The president wants to make it harder for jobless people to obtain food stamps.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/trump-adds-work-requirements-snap/578746/
-- 2019 --
January 10: Trump’s Labor Department Wants
to Drug-Test Applicants for Unemployment Benefits
... what if you had to take and pass a drug test in order to collect those
benefits, even if you lost your job for reasons unrelated to drug use? Well,
that is exactly what the Trump administration is proposing.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/drug-testing/trumps-labor-department-wants-drug-test-applicants
January 19: Defying Trump Administration,
Calif. Offers Federal Workers Unemployment Benefits
https://www.kunc.org/post/defying-trump-administration-calif-offers-federal-workers-unemployment-benefits#stream/0
January 20: The Historic Results of
President Donald J. Trump’s First Two Years in Office
IGNITING A HISTORIC ECONOMIC BOOM: President
Trump’s pro-growth policies are unleashing economic growth and providing
opportunities to workers across the country.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/the-historic-results-of-president-donald-j-trumps-first-two-years-in-office/
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-- 2020 --
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