Romney Tweaked His College Grad Unemployment Lie Last Night, But It’s Still a Lie « Student Activism

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Romney Tweaked His College Grad Unemployment Lie Last Night, But It’s Still a Lie

by Angus Johnston

I’ve written a couple of times before about Romney’s ridiculous lie that half of recent college grads can’t find jobs (the real number is somewhere between six and nine percent). And though I hate to beat a dead horse, he told the lie again twice in last night’s debate, with a twist that makes it worth revisiting.
Here are the quotes:

“With half of college kids graduating this year without a college — excuse me, without a job. And without a college level job, that’s just unacceptable.”

And then later:

“An economy with 50 percent of kids graduating from college that can’t find a job, or a college level job,