Claim: Says "New Jersey's unemployment is significantly lower than it was when I got here. And we've created 50,000 new private sector jobs in the last 20 months after having lost 117,000 in the year before I got here."
Fact-check: Chris Christie talks up job growth in New Jersey
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Erin O'Neill;Bill Wichert
Date published: 2011-10-04T00:00:00