Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., denied that unemployment has increased since President Obama, defending her position with the inconsistent claim that unemployment is now falling back towards the rate that it was when Obama took office.
“That is simply not true,” the Democratic National Committee chairwoman told Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson this morning. “In fact, unemployment has now dropped below 9 percent, it’s continuing to drop.”
Ed Morrissey notes that the unemployment rate when Obama took office was at 7.8 percent, while it is at 8.6 percent as of November’s jobless report. The unemployment rate peaked at 10.1 percent in October 2009.
“Unemployment is nearing right around where it was when President Obama took office,” Wasserman Schultz said when pressed about whether unemployment has risen or fallen under President Obama.
