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Lawrence Summers stated on June 17, 2022 in an interview with Barron's:

“When you have unemployment below 4% and inflation above 4%, recession always follows within two years.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2022

Hillary Clinton stated on September 19, 2015 in remarks at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention:

"Under Republicans, recessions happen four times as frequently as under Democrats."

By Lauren Carroll • September 22, 2015

George Will stated on April 3, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2011

Mary Jordan stated on September 5, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, "when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it."

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010

JD Vance stated on October 17, 2026 in a CBS News town hall:

“The biggest reason why gas prices are so high is because when Joe Biden was president, we had about 20% of American refining capacity that went offline.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2026

Gretchen Whitmer stated on February 2, 2026 in a Substack:

Under Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, there are “fewer families living in poverty” than under her predecessor.

By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2026

Joe Biden stated on December 5, 2023 in a post on X:

“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”

By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2023

Instagram posts stated on July 25, 2022 in social media posts:

‘The White House is now trying to protect Joe Biden by changing the definition of the word recession.'

By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2022

Zach Wahls stated on May 31, 2022 in an end-of-year Senate Democrats newsletter:

“There are fewer Iowans working today than when Gov. Reynolds took office.”

By Lyle Muller • June 9, 2022

Joe Biden stated on November 18, 2020 in a virtual roundtable:

“666,000 teachers have been laid off already since March."

By Bill McCarthy • November 20, 2020

Vicky Hartzler stated on November 6, 2020 in a tweet:

Unemployment report shows “America is bouncing back.”

By Veronica Mohesky • November 18, 2020

David Zuckerman stated on September 29, 2020 in a debate:

“Our governor proposed initially a 5% cut across the board of state government.”

By Colin Meyn, Xander Landen • October 3, 2020

Joe Biden stated on September 18, 2020 in a video in a tweet:

Says Donald Trump is “the worst jobs president in recorded history."

By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2020

JB Pritzker stated on August 4, 2020 in remarks at a news conference:

When COVID-19 struck, the Illinois Department of Employment Security “was hit with something no one expected: 10 to 20 times the claims, even during the worst recession of my lifetime.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 14, 2020

Facebook posts stated on May 14, 2020 in on social media:

"Hidden in the CARES Act was an obscure $135 billion tax break for 43,000 millionaires."

By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2020

Paul Vallas stated on December 31, 2018 in a radio interview:

"I took over the school district when it had a $1 billion structural deficit and left them with $1 billion in cash and 70,000 more students than they have today."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 6, 2019

Peter Roskam stated on March 6, 2017 in a speech at the City Club of Chicago:

"The past (Obama) administration was the first administration that never had a whole year of 3 percent growth."

By Kevin Hoffman • March 16, 2017

Donald Trump stated on September 20, 2016 in a speech in Kenansville, N.C.:

"Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever."

By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2016

Charlotte Nash stated on November 17, 2015 in a statement:

Since 2008, Gwinnett County’s population has grown 15 percent, while the county government staff has increased only 1 percent.

By Nancy Badertscher • December 11, 2015

Chris Christie stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth Republican presidential debate:

Says the United States is in "the worst recovery from an economic recession since World War II."

By Jon Greenberg • November 11, 2015

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Trump said Americans’ finances don’t motivate him in Iran talks. How are people doing economically?

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What is a recession, and is it tied to stock market declines? What to know after Trump’s tariffs

By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2025

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In Nov. 1 Milwaukee rally, Trump offers falsehoods on economy, climate change

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2024

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Fact-checking Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s first 2024 presidential debate

By PolitiFact Staff • September 11, 2024

Live fact-checking the third Republican primary debate

By Ellen Hine • November 7, 2023

Trump at 2024 run announcement with fist in air Nov. 15, 2022

Trump says he left Biden a perfect economy, but the facts say otherwise

By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Yacob Reyes • November 16, 2022

What exactly is a recession? Sorting out a confusing topic

By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2022

Fact-checking Joe Biden on the American Rescue Plan

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Victoria Knight • March 12, 2021

Fact-checking Biden’s rollout of plan to address ‘twin crises’ of economy, pandemic

By Victoria Knight • January 15, 2021

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s two-hour speech at CPAC

By PolitiFact Staff • March 4, 2019

How have the Democratic candidates fared on the Truth-O-Meter?

By Linda Qiu • October 12, 2015

Democrats to take debate stage

By April Hunt • October 12, 2015

Mailbag: ‘I rate your “fact-check” to be Mostly Useless’

By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2015

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By W. Gardner Selby • May 6, 2013

Has government regulation slowed the recovery?

By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2013

Ghosts of politics past and future haunt Truth-O-Meter

By Willoughby Mariano • September 12, 2010