What did Donald Trump claim about the economy on 24 Sep 2020?
Donald Trump, President of the United States and Republican presidential nominee ·
We lifted 6.6 million people out of poverty, the largest poverty reduction in the first three years of any president in the history of our country.
Not the largest. Poverty fell by 6.64 million from 2016 to 2019, but by 7.93 million from 1963, when Lyndon Johnson took office, to 1966.
Census Bureau historical poverty data show 40,620,000 people below the poverty line in 2016 and 33,980,000 in 2019, when the poverty rate went from 12.7 percent to 10.5 percent. The same table shows 36,440,000 in 1963, the year Lyndon Johnson took office, and 28,510,000 in 1966, when the rate went from 19.5 percent to 14.7 percent (U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Poverty Tables, Table 2).
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- Great American Comeback campaign rally at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida.
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