claim: "we have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979."
author: cathy mcmorris rodgers
evidence_1: the visualisation below shows the total number of people employed in  agriculture across select european, north american and asian countries since  the year 1800. ... overall, we see the highest rates of female ownership in europe , however botswana and malawi both have ownership shares greater than 30  percent.
evidence_2: jan 26, 2014 ... sen. ted cruz, r-texas, offered a different take on the state of the labor force on  face the nation. "why are jobs and economic growth so dismal?" he asked. "we' ve got the lowest labor force participation in over three decades, since 1978. and  if president obama wants to give an honest, candid state of ...
evidence_3: technological change has increased the demand for skilled workers in all  industrialized countries, despite significant differences with regard to trade, labor  market institutions, and ... since 1979, the earnings of white women have risen  16 percent, twice as much as the 8 percent earnings increase of black women.  while in ...
evidence_4: jan 14, 2016 ... median wages have stagnated. and the obama-clinton economy has left behind  the working men and women of this country." we decided to fact-check cruz's  statement that we have the lowest percentage of americans working today since  1977. cruz is on to something. one key employment statistic ...
evidence_5: jan 6, 2017 ... president barack obama took office in the throes of the worst recession since the  great depression, as the future of the country's economy was in doubt and  workers were being laid off like ... this is partly because of structural factors, as  employment in manufacturing has been dropping since june 1979.