claim: "our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: jan 20, 2015 ... state of the union: obama's economic proposals add to growing 2016 debate ...  proposals that reflect a country no longer in an economic crisis. ... our  unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis.".
evidence_2: feb 5, 2015 ... the department's current rate of 5.6 percent unemployment is the ... our  unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis.
evidence_3: feb 8, 2015 ... reality exposes the lie of the official unemployment rate .... given by the fact- checking team at the tampa bay times (“if you like your ... said the jobless rate “ is now lower than it was before the financial crisis” of 2007-2008.
evidence_4: aug 4, 2017 ... financial crisis ... what's more, the rate is less than half its peak at 10 percent in  october 2009 in the wake of the recession. ... even as the unemployment rate  has fallen, and other economic ... that's actually lower than the 2.9 percent pace  in december 2016, just before he took office. .... see my options.
evidence_5: jan 20, 2015 ... our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis. more  of our kids are graduating than ever before; more of our people ...