What did Donald Trump claim about the economy on 12 Dec 2018?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
Last year alone, we lifted 1 million Americans out of poverty, which is a record.
It was not a record. The number of people in poverty fell by about 0.9 million in 2017, less than the drops of about 2.5 million in 2016, 3.5 million in 2015 and 4.7 million in 1966.
The Census Bureau counts 39,698,000 people in poverty in 2017, against 40,616,000 in 2016, 43,123,000 in 2015, 46,657,000 in 2014, 33,185,000 in 1965 and 28,510,000 in 1966 (Income and Poverty in the United States: 2017, P60-263, Table B-1, U.S. Census Bureau, September 2018).
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- Remarks on signing an executive order establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
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