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| Subject: Donald Trump Calls Unemployment Rate One of the "Biggest Hoaxes in Politics" Tue Aug 09, 2016 5:04 am | |
| During a speech on the economy
Donald Trump smells a rat. Or two.
After saying last week that he is worried that the November election will be “rigged” against him, Trump, on Monday, argued in a speech on the economy that the unemployment rate, published once a month by the Labor Department, is a “hoax.” This isn’t the first time that Trump has questioned the validity of the official unemployment rate, or what economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics have labeled the U-3 rate. But Trump has rarely talked about the unemployment rate in such strong terms, characterizing the employment situation report as simple propaganda meant to trick the public into believing that the economy is in better shape than it’s in.
http://fortune.com/2016/08/08/donald-trump-hoax/?iid=leftrail |
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