Tim Scott’s False and Misleading Claims About Unemployment
by D'Angelo Gore
May 09, 2024
3 minutes
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino.
Republican Sen. Tim Scott has claimed that African Americans, Hispanics and Asians all had their lowest unemployment rate under former President Donald Trump. But the lowest unemployment rate on record for African Americans was under President Joe Biden, and the lowest unemployment rate for Hispanics was the same under both presidents.
Women also had their lowest unemployment rate since the 1950s under Biden, despite what Scott suggested on May 5, when he was by host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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