The claim: The Biden-Harris administration inherited “the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression,” Vice President Kamala Harris argued Tuesday at a National Association of Black Journalists rally.
Verdict: False. “This is an exaggeration.” According to To PolitiFact:
In April 2020, as the pandemic began to rage, the unemployment rate soared to 14.8%, a post-Great Depression record. Trump was president at the time. But Trump did not “leave” a post-Great Depression record unemployment rate to Biden and Harris. By December 2020, the unemployment rate had fallen to 6.4%, a high level in recent years but far lower than the unemployment rates recorded multiple times during the recession.
Harris made similar false statements during the presidential debates, Breitbart News' Joel Pollack reported.
During Tuesday night's presidential debate, Vice President Harris attacked former President Trump's economic record, claiming that he “left us with the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression,” which is simply false.
The unemployment rate in January 2021 was 6.4% lower than it was during President Barack Obama's term in office in 2014. In fact, the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression was 10.0%, early in the Obama administration.
Unemployment is a fact spike It had fallen to 14.8% in April 2020, but that was due to coronavirus-related shutdowns imposed at both the state and federal levels and maintained longer by Democrats than Republicans.
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