Claim: "When  Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. There's only one other four-year period where that's true. That's true from 2008 to 2012."
Fact-check: Ted Cruz says slow economic growth under Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama stands apart
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2015-09-25T00:00:00