claim: during the reagan administration, "millions of people were thrown out of work."
author: michael moore
evidence_1: jan 24, 2014 ... indeed, they joined a near record of more than 102 million americans not  working in december, all still out there and suffering without jobs. those 102  million americans are the human face of an employment-population ratio stuck at  a pitiful 58.6%. in fact, more than 100 million americans were not working ...
evidence_2: feb 8, 2011 ... liberal filmmaker michael moore: during the reagan administration, "millions of  people were thrown out of work." we found that employment rates actually  improved during the reagan years. factoring in population growth, employment  ratios grew by 2 percentage points over reagan's eight years. failing ...
evidence_3: jul 18, 2016 ... since the job market bottomed out in january, 2010, in the depths of the great  recession, the u.s. economy has produced more than 14 million jobs. ... one big  reason: during the obama administration, more people were out of work longer  than during any time in the last 40 years. many have simply left the ...
evidence_4: sep 11, 2014 ... president reagan entered office in a period of high inflation which was stamped  out by high interest rates that in turn led to the 1982 recession. his job-creation  record after that may fairly be termed outstanding: nearly 20 million more  americans were employed when he left office than when the recession ...
evidence_5: dec 2, 2016 ... any suggestion that federal statisticians are skewing numbers in favor of the  obama administration are preposterous, according to farber. "it's not very  sensible to say there's 95 million unemployed people," he told me. yet people  are saying it, purposefully conflating the unemployment rate with the labor ...