claim: "unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the president’s first year in office to 8.5 percent today."
author: hank johnson
evidence_1: oct 9, 1982 ... subscribe now .... the following is an outline of unemployment in the  presidencies ... the unemployment rate dropped but lingered in the teens until ...  it stood at 8.5 percent at the end of the president's first year in office ...
evidence_2: unemployment in the united states discusses the causes and measures of u.s.  unemployment ... unemployment generally falls during periods of economic  prosperity and ... the unemployment rates (u-3 and u-6) fell steadily from 2010  to 2018. .... over 10 million jobs were created in each of president clinton's two  terms ...
evidence_3: jun 22, 2018 ... that's why president reagan said, "inflation is as violent as a ... it says that for  every percentage point that unemployment falls, real gross ... the misery index  exceeded 20 percent during the great depression ... 1981, 17.4%, 8.5%, 8.9% ...  sent the misery index to 5.2 percent during eisenhower's first year.
evidence_4: william galston assesses president obama's first two years in office and ... to the  here and now, not to the counterfactual of how much worse it might have been. ....  jobs at an anemic pace, and unemployment remained stuck near 10 percent. ...  the passage of the stimulus bill, unemployment would peak around 8.5 percent.
evidence_5: ronald reagan was the u.s. president from 1981 to 1989. ... years. in december  1981, it was 8.5 percent. ... growth leveled out at 3.7 percent in 1988 and  unemployment fell to 5.3 percent. ... during his first year, he cut domestic  programs by $39 billion. ... reagan's salary as president was $200,000, worth  $290,000 today.