Post by the Scribe on Aug 31, 2020 8:15:07 GMT
Gaining the jobs back that were on hiatus from the pandemic is NOT creating new jobs.
Trump: We will create 10 million jobs in the next ten months, and it will be higher than that.
In the first 37 months that President Trump was in office — that is, before the pandemic struck — the U.S. economy added 6.8 million jobs. That’s impressive, but hardly unprecedented. In the 37 months before Trump took office, the U.S. economy added 8.2 million jobs.
Scott Horsley
NPR Chief Economics Correspondent
Trump: We will create 10 million jobs in the next ten months, and it will be higher than that.
In the first 37 months that President Trump was in office — that is, before the pandemic struck — the U.S. economy added 6.8 million jobs. That’s impressive, but hardly unprecedented. In the 37 months before Trump took office, the U.S. economy added 8.2 million jobs.
Scott Horsley
NPR Chief Economics Correspondent