Fact-Checking Trump’s ’42 Percent Unemployment’ Claim | Here & Now

Fact-Checking Trump’s ’42 Percent Unemployment’ Claim | Here & Now: "Donald Trump talked about the unemployment rate. “Don’t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment,” he said. “The number’s probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent.”

An unemployment rate of 42 percent would be nearly 10 times higher than the official unemployment rate of 4.9 percent, reported last Friday. Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson looks at how Trump is coming up with that number with Ali Velshi of Al Jazeera America."  'via Blog this'