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Another broken promise: Job creation under Trump trails Obama by 800,000
Published 1 min ago on July 10, 2019 By Igor Derysh, Salon
Job growth has slowed under President Trump compared to the final months of President Obama’s second term, despite Trump’s frequent boasts that the current economy is the “greatest” in the history of the country.
During the first 29 full months that Trump has been in office, from February 2017 through June 2019, the economy created 5.61 million jobs, or about 194,000 per month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
During Obama’s last 29 full months, from September 2014 to January 2017, the economy added 6.42 million new jobs, or about 221,000 per month.
Altogether, job growth under Trump is about 810,000 jobs short of what it was under Obama during the final part of his presidency.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/another-broken-promise-job-creation-under-trump-trails-obama-by-800000/?utm_source=push_notifications
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