The Trump campaign is right that the 4.9 percent headline unemployment rate, touted by the Obama administration, is misleading. Joblessness is substantially worse and not likely to get better if Hillary Clinton is elected

In 2009, President Obama inherited a tough situation — the financial crisis and unemployment peaking at 10 percent in October. However, the recovery has been one of the weakest on record, and most unemployed Americans don’t qualify for many of the good paying jobs becoming available.

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