A quarterly update of statistical measures of the president’s time in office.
Biden’s Numbers, April Update
Issues: Unemployment rate
Biden’s Numbers, January 2023 Update
Here’s how the United States has fared since President Joe Biden took office two years ago.
Biden’s Numbers, October 2022 Update
Various measures of what has happened in the country since the president’s inauguration.
Biden’s Misleading Claims About the Economic Recovery and Unemployment
When President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law in March 2021, U.S. gross domestic product had increased for three quarters straight, and the unemployment rate had decreased nearly nine percentage points from its pandemic peak. But Biden wrongly credited the Democratic COVID-19 relief bill with rescuing a U.S. economy “in decline.”
Biden’s Numbers (First Quarterly Update)
The most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since the president took office.
Biden’s Numbers
Statistical measures of the president’s term to date.
Trump’s Final Numbers
Statistical indicators of President Trump’s four years in office.
Video: Discussing FactChecking the Democratic Convention
FactCheck.org Deputy Managing Editor Robert Farley spoke with WBAL-TV in Baltimore and seven other Hearst TV stations around the country about fact-checking the Democratic convention.
Video: FactChecking the Democratic National Convention
This video reviews some of the statements that we fact-checked during the Democratic National Convention, which ended Aug. 20 with former Vice President Joe Biden accepting his party’s nomination for president.
Democratic Convention Night 2
We found few factual distortions on the night Joe Biden officially became the party’s presidential nominee.