Story highlights Carly Fiorina says the extreme poverty rate among women is at the highest level ever recorded

The former tech CEO claimed Hillary Clinton's policies will make things worse for women

Washington (CNN) Carly Fiorina on Thursday reiterated her claims that Hillary Clinton's proposed economic policies would hurt women and other constituency groups Clinton says she wants to help.

"The extreme poverty rate among women is at the highest level ever recorded. The number of women living in poverty is at the highest level in 20 years," she told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day." "And every single policy that Hillary Clinton is now proposing demonstrably we have evidence that suggests causes women to be fired, not to be hired. The record is very clear on that."

During Wednesday night's GOP debate, Fiorina had also said, "92% of the jobs lost during Barack Obama's first term belonged to women."

According to the official government numbers , there were actually more women working at the end of Obama's first term than when he started. In January 2009, there were 66.5 million American women working in non-farm jobs, compared to January 2013 when there were 66.9 million. That's an increase of over 400,000 working females in Obama's first term.

Fiorina's statistic was one used by 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney during his presidential campaign, which Politifact ruled was numerically true at the time in early 2012, but not something that could be blamed on Obama's policies "since his term overlapped with the phase of recessions that typically sees greater job losses by women than men."

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