Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said a number of misleading things in his economic policy speech on Monday. He argued that the average American worker would benefit from repealing a tax that only impacts the richest 0.2 percent. He implied that the U.S. spends more on refugees than on infrastructure (the opposite is true), and he repeated the claim that Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is promising to raise taxes on the middle class (she isn’t).
But one claim stood out for its especially blatant falsehood. Trump asserted that the official unemployment rate is “one of the biggest hoaxes in American modern politics.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-unemployment-truther-2644a5daef10#.crmow7s7k
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