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Trump Boasts Economic ‘Comeback’ With Unemployment Over 11 Percent

Donald Trump took a victory lap on the economy after the monthly jobs report released earlier in the morning showed 4.8 million of the jobs lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic returned in June.

“It’s all coming back. It’s coming back faster, bigger, and better than we ever thought possible,” Trump said in a speech from the White House briefing room on Thursday morning. “These are the numbers. These are not numbers made up by me. These are numbers.”

However, the unemployment rate remains at 11.1 percent — higher than it was at the peak of the Great Recession in 2008 — with 17.8 million Americans still out of work. Continue reading.

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