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unemployment would never go above 8 percent. He even said it would be 6 percent by now.

Bob Latta · A campaign email from Latta for Congress · May 5, 2012

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PolitiFact, May 17, 2012 · read the check

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The record does not settle it

Checked against No agency record holds the promise: the projection behind this line is the January 2009 paper by the incoming administration's economic advisers, written before they took office, not an agency publication; the Bureau of Labor Statistics records what unemployment was, not what anyone said it would be.

The record: Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, series LNS14000000

Context

Latta was describing projections for the 2009 federal stimulus plan.

Topics: Economy, Jobs.

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Sources

  1. Bob Latta says Obama promised the stimulus plan would have unemployment at 6 percent by now · PolitiFact · 2012-05-17 · accessed 2026-09-25
  2. Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, series LNS14000000 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · accessed 2026-10-15

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