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Trump: The Unemployment Rate is 42%, or 45% or...
pick any number as long as it's Youge!
USA Today:Donald Trump said he “heard” the unemployment rate was really 42%. It’s not. That figure would include retirees, teenagers, stay-at-home parents and anyone else who doesn’t need or want to work.
(According to Trump, if your grandmother is in a twilight home, technically she's unemployed.)
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Re: Trump: The Unemployment Rate is 42%, or 45% or...
Politifact:
Donald Trump says the unemployment rate may be 42 percent or higher.
Our ruling
Trump keeps repeating that the unemployment rate may be as high as 42 percent. But getting a percentage that high requires believing that being a high school, college or graduate student, a senior citizen, a stay-at-home parent, a job-training participant, or having a disability is no excuse for not holding down a job, or for working less than 40 hours in a week. The highest alternative unemployment-rate measure we could come up with that had any credibility was 14.8 percent, and even that exaggerated figure is only about one-third of the way to Trump’s 42 percent. We rate his claim Pants on Fire.
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Bill Maher:“We’ve gotten so used to Donald Trump and a candidate who pulls insane sh*t out of his a*s,” Maher told his panelists, before noting that Trump tells his supporters at rallies that unemployment at the US is “really” as high as 40 percent, despite the fact that it is actually at 4.9 percent.
“Do you have any idea what America would look like with 40 percent unemployment?” he asked. In the Great Depression, people were jumping out of windows and selling apples on the street.”
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