Fact Checker: How Democrats are putting a bad spin on good economic news
By Glenn Kessler Glenn Kessler The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow March 19 at 3:00 AM When the unemployment rate is 4 percent, or even lower, it presents a challenge for the political party out of power: How do you make the case that things could be better? Or that things are really worse?
The Democrats who have followed her path have more carefully crafted their lines. Here’s a guide to the rhetoric, from the worst to least-inaccurate. As this is a roundup, we’re not awarding Pinocchios. But no one would earn any Geppettos. “After reaching a peak of 6.2 percent during 1995-96, the multiple job-holding rate began to recede,” the BLS noted in a report. “By the mid-2000s, the rate had declined to 5.2 percent and remained close to that level from 2006 to 2009. In 2010, the multiple job-holding rate decreased to 4.9 percent and has remained at 4.9 percent or 5.0 percent from 2010 to 2017.”
But this appears to be a self-selected survey, not a random sample. “This was an online survey of Texas State Teachers Association teacher members. We have about 50,000 teacher members, and we encouraged them by email to participate in the survey,” said Clay Robison, a TSTA spokesman. Some 974 teachers participated.
That’s higher than the overall population — but much lower than “half” as stated by O’Rourke. He earns points for at least having a specific example, but it’s based on fishy data. So Sanders certainly has the most accurate sound bite. But it’s lacking important context, making it misleading.
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