claim: during his time as house speaker, "unemployment came down from 5.6 percent to under 4 (percent)."
author: newt gingrich
evidence_1: during his time as house speaker, "unemployment came down from 5.6 percent  to under 4 (percent)." — politifact national on wednesday, may 11th, 2011.  false. actually, a few million such households did. newt gingrich · when the  united states "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million  dollars ...
evidence_2: may 6, 2016 ... “in the united states, our economy is growing again,” obama crowed during his  trip to germany last month. and the ... he expects final figures to show that '2015  will have been the tenth year in a row that real gdp growth came in at under 3.0  percent.' ... americans who own homes: down 5.6 percent.
evidence_3: apr 6, 2015 ... unemployment rate — meanwhile the unemployment rate ticked down another  tenth of a point, to 5.5 percent. ... the historical median is 5.6 percent. ... obama  does not quite qualify for the label that former house speaker newt gingrich  came up with during his 2012 run for the republican presidential ...
evidence_4: may 18, 2017 ... the over-the-year decrease in the unemployment rates of the foreign born and  the native born reflected decreases in the rates for both men and women. the  unemployment rate for foreign-born men fell from 4.5 percent to 3.8 percent, and  the rate for foreign-born women was down from 5.6 percent to 5.1 ...
evidence_5: feb 3, 2015 ... right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the white house and  wall street about how unemployment is "down" to 5.6%. ... the media, talking  heads, the white house and wall street start reporting the truth -- the percent of  americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real -- then we ...