Biden’s Misleading Claim About Latino Unemployment

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Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Under President Joe Biden, the Latino unemployment rate reached a low of 3.9% in September 2022 — the lowest rate since September 2019. But Biden recently said that the rate under his presidency was the lowest in “a long, long time.” Biden made the misleading claim while making an appeal to Latino voters at a campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 19. He said he won in 2020 with their support and will need them again to defeat former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, in a general election rematch. “Look, I want to remind folks, because we turned out in 2020, we achieved the lowest unemployment rate for Latinos in a long, long time,” Biden said, according to an NBC News video and White House transcript. However, in this case, “a long, long time” is just three years. !function(e,n,i,s){var d="InfogramEmbeds";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,"script","infogram-async","https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js"); Initially, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate for Latinos was 3.8% in September 2022, which the Labor Department said was the lowest rate since 1973, when the BLS started tracking the statistic. BLS defines the unemployed as...

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