claim: the u.s. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."
author: rick perry
evidence_1: jan 26, 2015 ... ... says unemployment rate has 'been massaged, it's been doctored'). ... statistics  and whose job it is to give us numbers sufficiently accurate to ...
evidence_2: jul 25, 2016 ... these are numbers that are massaged to make the existing ... the  unemployment rate is developed by the u.s. bureau of labor statistics based in  part on data from interviews ... but that's the way it's consistently been done for  decades. ... "the same basic definition of the unemployment rate has been used  ...
evidence_3: have an account? .... perry says official unemployment rate is unreliable: “it's  been massaged, it's been doctored.” ... @daveweigel did he say the  unemployment thing at the republican jewish coalition breakfast, and are you  there? .... lcdr tedeschi, chief of economics, us space force   @ ernietedeschi 26 jan 2015.
evidence_4: jan 26, 2015 ... “it's been massaged, it's been doctored,” perry said, as quoted in a tweet ...  despite the fact that the unemployment rate has dropped all the way ...
evidence_5: the official unemployment rate is massaged and doctored ... rate coming out of  washington: "it's been massaged, it's been doctored," perry said. back in 2012 ...  most of us didn't start in the corner office, i mean, you worked your way up. ....  perry said, "95% of all the jobs that we've created have been above minimum  wage.