"Fox News host Jon Scott ...claimed that when President Reagan took office, unemployment was 8.2 percent, and by the time his first term ended, it had dropped to 6 percent."The unemployment rate when Ronald Reagan took office was 7.5%, not 8.2%. And, it was 7.3% at the end of his first term, not 6%. That information is very easily attained. You have to go out of your way to ignore it.