Fact checkin’ – Sunday addition

From Agenda

Rawdon Christie: Maori make up 7.7% of unemployed compared to 3.9% of the rest of the population.

Incompetent: The unemployment rate of Maori is 7.7%, that’s different from what Rawdon (reading from teleprompter) said. If Maori only made up 7.7% of unemployed, they would be underrepresented. In fact, Maori make up 19% of the unemployed. Also, 3.6% of the non-Maori population are unemployed (here and here)

Vernon Small: the unions support National’s 2+2 Kiwisaver

Wrong: Easy to get it wrong. Afterall, that lie coming from National has only been exposed multiple times over the past week and a half.

Perhaps, Agenda needs to get their outsourced fact-checkers to have a look at their supposed expert political commentators.

[yes, the title is intentional, it’s puntastic]

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