Senator Bernie Sanders, Democrat presidential candidate, took issue with the Obama administration's employment numbers, saying at a campaign rally this weekend that the real unemployment rate is actually 10.5%.

"When you talk about the economy we also have to have an honest assessment of unemployment in America," Sanders told a crowd of supporters in Portland, Maine.

"Once a month the government publishes a set of figures, and the last figures they published said that official unemployment was 5.4 percent." (The actual number is 5.3%.)

"But there is another set of government statistics," Sanders said, "and that that real unemployment if you include those people who have given up looking for work and the millions of others who are working part-time 20, 25 hours a week when they want to work full-time, when you all of that together, real unemployment is 10.5 percent."

Sander's has stepped off the Obama administration line that the economy is improving. Just last week Obama said of the most recent unemployment number in a speech in Minnesota, "Step by step, America is moving forward. Middle class economics works."

H/T The Daily Caller