Soledad O'Brien Tries (And Fails) to Debunk Romney's Women Job Loss Claim
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 6:45pm
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CNN's Soledad O'Brien tried to refute a Romney campaign claim that even ABC's George Stephanopoulos admitted was "accurate" -- namely, that since President Obama took office women have accounted for 92 percent of the jobs lost.
Soledad claimed that the numbers dated to January of 2009, when Obama didn't enter office until three weeks in.
However, even if the job numbers began in February of 2009, women lost a total of 484,000 jobs between then and March 2011, while men gained 468,000. Thus women lost an overwhelming number of jobs under President Obama compared to men.
