Fiorina’s False Statement About Women And Jobs
[su_gootxttop]
Carly Fiorina continues to give misleading information during debates. She sounds like she’s memorized a few things that then turn out not to be true.
Answering a question about equal pay, Fiorina claimed, “Ninety-two percent of the jobs lost during Barack Obama’s first term belonged to women.”
[su_gootxtbelow]
If that seems hard to believe, it’s because it’s not true. Fiorina repeated a claim Mitt Romney made during his 2012 presidential run, whichPolitiFact rated “mostly false.” Romney’s campaign objected to the rating at the time, but PolitiFact stood by its original piece.
What’s more, the Romney figure is also badly out of date, and doesn’t capture what actually happened to women in Obama’s first term at all.
[su_facebook]
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.