Statement·other·said 2016-06-29
“The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. It's just it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to.”
Where they said it
Verdict
False
2016-07-05Reasoning
PolitiFact found Obama wrong on both counts: U.S. steel production fell over a third from its 1973 peak, and employment dropped to roughly one-fifth of 1950s levels, not one-tenth.
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