Clementine
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Don't shoot the messenger, libs. This is on yahoo headlines and they usually go out of their way to make Obama look good.
Obamas Inflated Jobs Claim
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In a new TV ad, President Obama makes an inflated claim to have added 5.2 million new jobs. The total added during his time in office is actually about 325,000.
According to the most recent employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy has eked out a net gain of 325,000 jobs since January 2009, when Obama took office. And thats giving credit for roughly 386,000 jobs that the BLS has announced, on a preliminary basis, that it will be adding to this years employment totals next year, as a result of its routine annual benchmarking analysis.
Obamas Inflated Jobs Claim
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