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Presidential debate fact-check: Trump and Clinton's claims reviewed
It's a fairly long read. The article lists 14 Trump claimsand 5 Clinton claims. The Trump claims are generally false.
The Clinton claims are essentially true. Trump's rebuttals
of Sec. Clinton's points are also false.
Source: The Guardian
Presidential debate fact-check: Trump and Clinton's claims reviewed
Alan Yuhas fact-checks the statements of Donald Trump
and Hillary Clinton at the first presidential debate at Hofstra
University in New York
Alan Yuhas in San Francisco
Tuesday 27 September 2016 08.39 BST
Donald Trump’s claims
Trump: “Our jobs are fleeing the country, they’re going to Mexico they’re going to many other countries … Hundreds of hundreds of companies are doing this.”
Trump is primarily talking about the North American Free Trade Agreement, but the long-term decline in manufacturing around the US can’t only be attributed to the trade deal. Economists still debate the effect of the deal on jobs, since US trade with Canada and Mexico is modest at best. In 2015, the Congressional Research Service wrote: “Nafta did not cause the huge job losses feared by the critics or the large economic gains predicted by supporters.”
Manufacturing is down 37% since its peak in 1979, but this change has a great deal to do with the general shift toward a service-based economy, which the US has had surpluses in in recent years. It’s true that many manufacturing jobs have been outsourced, especially since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, but it’s also true that the US has added more than 800,000 factory jobs since 2010.
Trump: “My father gave me a small loan in 1975.”
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Alan Yuhas fact-checks the statements of Donald Trump
and Hillary Clinton at the first presidential debate at Hofstra
University in New York
Alan Yuhas in San Francisco
Tuesday 27 September 2016 08.39 BST
Donald Trump’s claims
Trump: “Our jobs are fleeing the country, they’re going to Mexico they’re going to many other countries … Hundreds of hundreds of companies are doing this.”
Trump is primarily talking about the North American Free Trade Agreement, but the long-term decline in manufacturing around the US can’t only be attributed to the trade deal. Economists still debate the effect of the deal on jobs, since US trade with Canada and Mexico is modest at best. In 2015, the Congressional Research Service wrote: “Nafta did not cause the huge job losses feared by the critics or the large economic gains predicted by supporters.”
Manufacturing is down 37% since its peak in 1979, but this change has a great deal to do with the general shift toward a service-based economy, which the US has had surpluses in in recent years. It’s true that many manufacturing jobs have been outsourced, especially since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, but it’s also true that the US has added more than 800,000 factory jobs since 2010.
Trump: “My father gave me a small loan in 1975.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/26/debate-fact-check-trump-clinton-live-quotes-hofstra
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