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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


-- 2015 --

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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 --

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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 --

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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 --

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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/

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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/

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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 --

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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/

Ongoing:  Factcheck unemployment archives
https://www.factcheck.org/issue/unemployment/

-- 2020 --

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