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progree

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Sun Apr 30, 2017, 07:56 PM Apr 2017

Unemployment rates at 3 months: Clinton(D): 7.1%, Bush(R): 4.4%, Obama(D): 9.0%, Trump(R):4.5% [View all]

[font color = red]On Edit:[/font]according to Fox News. True, but each president's unemployment rate at 3 months is pretty much what they inherited from their predecessor [font color = red]{/edit}[/font]

Fox News accused of running 'misleading' graphic on Donald Trump's unemployment record, The Independent, 4/30/17
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-accused-running-apos-144917994.html

I can't embed the graphics, but here is the essence of it:

Unemployment rates at 3 months:
[font color = blue]Clinton(D): 7.1%[/font], [font color = red]Bush(R): 4.4%[/font], [font color = blue]Obama(D): 9.0%[/font], [font color = red]Trump(R):4.5%[/font]

To which a Tweet responds:

And here is the same thing but additionally showing what is much more important: the unemployment rate when each president left office:

[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] At 3 months When left office
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"][font color = blue]Clinton(D): 7.1% 4.2%[/font]
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"][font color = red]Bush(R): 4.4% 7.8%[/font]
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"][font color = blue]Obama(D): 9.0% 4.8%[/font]
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"][font color = red]Trump(R): 4.5% ???[/font]

[font color = red]On Edit:[/font] See Post #7 for what it is for the last 5 presidents measured at the beginning and end of their terms [font color = red]{/edit}[/font]

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