Julian Castro failed the AP Fact Check on one of his provocative claims during Tuesday night’s Democratic party debate.
Castro claimed rust belt states Ohio, Michigan and PA are losing jobs under President Trump.
Per AP,
JULIAN CASTRO, former U.S. housing secretary: “Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania actually in the latest jobs data have lost jobs, not gained them.”
THE FACTS: Nope.
Figures from the Labor Department show that the former Housing and Urban Development secretary is wrong.
Ohio added jobs in August. So did Michigan . Same with Pennsylvania .
So Castro’s statement is off.
#APFactCheck Julian Castro was wrong when he said "Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania actually in the latest jobs data have lost jobs, not gained them." All three states added jobs in August, which is the latest data available. https://t.co/NpVGHsxjuD
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) October 16, 2019
Update: Castro has also failed Wapo’s fact check.
Per Wapo.
— Former HUD secretary Julián Castro
This is not correct, according to the latest monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate went up modestly in Ohio, from 4.0 to 4.1 percent from July to August, but remained steady in Pennsylvania at 3.9 percent and declined from 4.3 percent to 4.2 percent in Michigan. The number of jobs — the size of labor forces — increased in all three states.
The Castro campaign pointed to a March to July slippage in nonfarm employment to justify his answer, but that’s cherry-picked. The BLS data shows that year over year, nonfarm employment increased every month. Small changes in the number of jobs month by month is not nearly as significant as the year to year numbers.
Twitter users also blasted Castro for what appears to be an outright lie.
Hey @Politifact,
Twice tonight Julian Castro has claimed Ohio has lost jobs under @POTUS Trump.
Since https://t.co/SoAvVWV9kn reports there were 5,546,400 Ohioans employed in January 2017 https://t.co/ldMIwRqHOA and 5,591,700 in August 2019, it should be easy to #PANTSONFIRE him.— Wayne_In_Akron (@Wayne_In_Akron) October 16, 2019
.@JulianCastro has repeatedly said Ohio is losing jobs since @realdonaldtrump took office.
That's incorrect: https://t.co/rvbYeqRfJX
— Jessie Balmert (@jbalmert) October 16, 2019
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