The numbers are nearly all in now. What they show about what really happened during the eight years that Barack Obama was president is sometimes different from what politicians claimed.
Obama’s Final Numbers
Issues: Unemployment rate
No Evidence Jobs Data Was ‘Manipulated’
President Donald Trump’s chief budget officer claimed — without any evidence — that “the Obama administration was manipulating the numbers” to make the nation’s unemployment rate “look smaller.”
What President Trump Inherits
These are some of the numbers by which the future successes or failures of the new presidency will be measured.
Groundhog Friday
On his so-called “victory tour,” President-elect Donald Trump has been repeating some inaccurate talking points that we’ve flagged before.
Trump’s Job Loss Exaggeration
Donald Trump distorted the facts when he claimed New York’s job losses during Hillary Clinton’s eight years as the state’s U.S. senator were “worse than just about any place in the country.”
Groundhog Friday
This week, we have an all-Trump-ticket edition of Groundhog Friday, our wrap-up of debunked claims that politicians keep repeating.
Trump’s Greatest Hits
A compendium of the top false and misleading claims by the Republican presidential candidate.
Trump Oversells Pence’s Record
Donald Trump introduced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate July 16, but, in doing so, oversold Indiana’s economic performance under Pence.
Obama’s Numbers July 2016 Update
Our quarterly update of statistical indicators on jobs, wages, debt, energy, illegal immigration, food stamps and more.
Trump’s Education Exaggeration
Donald Trump claimed in an Indiana speech that the U.S. ranks “last in education” and “first in terms of spending per pupil” among 30 countries. He’s wrong on both counts, as measured by federal and international organizations.