Trump says the economy is quickly recovering from the pandemic. But 4 jarring statistics blow a hole in his argument.

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• Trump ushered in the Republican National Convention with effusive praise for his economic record.
• "There's never been three months when we've put more people to work. We're just about ready to break the all-time stock market record," Trump said at the RNC.
• But four economic statistics illustrate an increasing level of hardship among many Americans that sharply diverges from the president's version of events.
• Millions of Americans are unemployed and a growing share say they didn't eat enough. Many also face the prospect of evictions.
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President Donald Trump kicked off the Republican National Convention on Monday with a familiar theme: He's steering the economy to unprecedented heights, even amid the devastation inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic.

"We just broke a record on jobs, an all-time record," he said. "There's never been three months when we've put more people to work. We're just about ready to break the all-time stock market record."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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