Donald Trump – Trump says Wisconsin poverty rate is lowest in 22 years. It’s not.

The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Trump says Wisconsin poverty rate is lowest in 22 years. It’s not.

At a April 27, 2019 rally in Green Bay before 10,000 boisterous supporters, President Donald Trump blazed his way through a typical barrage of claims and statistics in a stump speech that stretched well over an hour. After calling Wisconsin — a key state in his 2016 general election victory — a "special place," he threw out two rapid fire claims on the state’s poverty and unemployment levels. We’ll tackle the first of those here. "The poverty rate for Wisconsin families has reached the lowest rate in 22 years," Trump said, a pronouncement greeted by cheers from the Resch Center …

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