Economics

The Truth Behind Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton’s Twitter Spat

They’re both sort of wrong and sort of right.
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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton got into an economic spat yesterday via the noblest form of debate: the Twitter argument.

As Bush campaigned in New Hampshire Wednesday, he bemoaned the nation's low labor force participation rate, telling the New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board "that people need to work longer hours" to help propel U.S. growth. The Clinton campaign quickly capitalized on the comment, tweeting: