What did Donald Trump claim about the economy on 9 Oct 2016?
Donald Trump, Republican presidential nominee ·
You go into the inner cities and—you see it's 45 percent poverty. African- Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities.
The rate was 26.9 percent, not 45. That was the 2015 poverty rate for Black Americans in principal cities; for all Black Americans it was 24.1 percent.
The Census Bureau's 2015 figures, released in September 2016, put the poverty rate for Black Americans living inside principal cities at 26.9 percent, and for all Black Americans at 24.1 percent (U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, table POV41).
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- Second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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