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Oct 12 4 tweets 2 min read
@MarshaBlackburn 1x/ Why do folks want you to think Republicans do better on the economy. The 2 worst years in the last 25 were the final years of #GOP Presidents: 2008 and 2020. Consider: Until 2020, quarterly GDP had never experienced a drop greater than 10% /1x
@MarshaBlackburn 2x/ since the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) began keeping track in 1947. It happened in 2020. /2x
@MarshaBlackburn 3x/ In April 2020, the U.S. economy lost 20.5 million jobs and the unemployment rate was 14.7%.
Black and Asian Men See Higher Employment Levels since 2020 - then, in the last year of the Bush Presidency, 2008 /3x
@MarshaBlackburn 4x/ In the third quarter of 2008 when GDP fell by 2.1% The economy lost more than 700,000 jobs in the last two months of the year. /4x

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