schmidlap
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The numbers concerning the unemployment rate and the national debt are the official figures.schmidlap said:... Trump was bequeathed an unemployment rate of 4.7% and grew it to 6.7% after his one term.
It had been steadily declining since the end of the Bush Recession...bullshitschmidlap said:... In Trump’s final year in office, the U.S. economy shrank by the largest amount in 74 years.
The estimated drop in GDP for 2020 was the first such decline since a 2.5% fall in 2009, during the recession that followed the 2008 financial crisis. That had the deepest annual setback since the economy shrank 11.6% in 1946, when the economy was demobilizing after World War II...
On the other hand, under the repeatedly bankrupted casino operator, the national debt soared by $7 trillion.
If you need to challenge any of the empirical data, please provide your links to your alternative credible sources.