What Happened to All the Jobs Trump Promised?

Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.

Trump Brags About ‘Best’ Economy in Ad Featuring Steel Plant That Laid Off Hundreds

In other words, Trump lied:

Trump bragged about bringing Michigan ‘so many damn car plants.’ Zero new major plants have opened during his presidency.

Wisconsin?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WIMFG

Ohio?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OHMFG

Michigan?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MIMFG

Update Post-Covid

Obama created 10,370,000 new jobs in his second term. Trump has destroyed 4,528,000 jobs, 20,787,000 in April alone.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth

Pre-Covid – February, 2020 Numbers are in, you can download the Excel spreadsheet and create your own formulas

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=net_1mth

Admin can’t explain why US job growth has slowed under Trump

Obama’s Last 37 months in office: 8,276,000

Trump’s First 37 months in office: 7,194,000

Wages?

The average worker isn’t seeing Trump’s “economic miracle.” Here’s why.

https://limbaugh2020.com/january-11-2020-peter-navarro-goes-on-smerconish-show-and-tells-a-lot-of-lies/

Manufacturing Jobs? Swing States?

U.S. Midwest manufacturing activity hits 4-year low

Michigan? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MIMFG

Pennsylvania? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAMFG

Wisconsin? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WIMFG

Unemployment?

Obama

Overall 7.8 4.7 (-3.1)
Black 12.7 7.7 (-5)
Asian 6.1 3.7 (-2.4)
Hispanic 10.1 5.8 (-4.3)

Trump

Overall 4.7 3.1 (-1.6)
Black 7.7 6.0 (-1.7) (5.4 to 6.0 since August 2019)
Asian 3.7 3.0 (-0.7)
Hispanic 5.8 4.3 (-1.5)

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000003&series_id=LNS14000006&series_id=LNS14032183&series_id=LNS14000009

Full transcript: Donald Trump’s jobs plan speech

Graphic: Factory woes grip swing states that flipped for Trump in 2016

Trump just claimed Ivanka created 14 million jobs. The entire economy added 6 million.

Ahead of 2020, manufacturers are struggling in Rust Belt regions that helped Trump win last time

Trump boasts of ‘blowout’ 303,000 jobs report, leading economists to puzzle over his math

Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)

http://thewrongapproach.com/?state=pa&view=data

https://limbaugh2020.com/on-labor-day-2019-please-remember-that-trump-does-not-care-about-labor-or-you/

https://limbaugh2020.com/tariffs-do-not-work/

https://limbaugh2020.com/trump-does-not-care-about-farmers/

https://limbaugh2020.com/i-never-voted-for-him-but-obama-was-better-than-trump/

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

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