A time-lapse map shows how wrong Donald Trump is about US unemployment

In a speech on the economy in August, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called the roughly 5% unemployment rate "one of the biggest hoaxes in American modern politics."
He and his team like to cite much more expansive — and less mainstream — measures of unemployment than the standard includes. His senior economic adviser, David Malpass, said in a statement at the time that the overall unemployment rate was stuck at 9.7%, though on the campaign trail Trump also said he "hea