Claim: The labor market is weak because if you count the unemployed, underemployed, and those who've stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate "actually went up last month to 13.5 percent."
Fact-check: Newt Gingrich says rise in unemployment statistic shows weakness of labor market
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2013-05-07T00:00:00