Lie December 21, 2019 · Speech · Jobs

“Through our Pledge to American Workers, private sector partners have pledged to provide training and career opportunity for 14 million Americans -- where private companies teach these people that did not have work. They couldn't get a job. They're being taught what to do, how to do it, how to use computers. Government can't do that. Fourteen million people are in those programs and they're working today.”

Said
December 21, 2019
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Jobs
Repeated
26 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 16475)

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