Sarah Sanders Apologizes For Her False Claim About African American Job Growth Under President Trump
Sarah Sanders Apologizes For Her False Claim About African American Job Growth Under President Trump
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders apologized Tuesday for overstating African American employment numbers during a press conference.
In response to a question about President Donald Trump’s alleged use of a racial slur, Sanders told reporters that employment among African Americans had grown three times as much in the first 18 months of the president’s term as it it had during President Barack Obama’s eight years in office, citing the White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA).
African American job growth during the Obama and Trump presidential terms differed little, former Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told The Washington Post: “The real bottom line is that the pace of jobs growth hasn’t changed dramatically between the two presidents.”
Employment did fall early in Obama’s first term, during the tail end of the Great Recession, but was growing again at the start of the second Obama term.
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