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AP FACT CHECK: Biden hails record job growth, skips caveats

by Calvin WoodwardChristopher Rugaber
| April 17, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking a page from his predecessor's boastful ways, President Joe Biden is claiming credit for two months of record job creation as employers bring back many workers sidelined by the pandemic. Though his numbers are right, it's a misleading portrait.

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