.MaddowBlog: Trump admin. can't explain why US job growth has slowed
The information probably didn't come as a surprise to regular readers. As weafter the release of the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Trump has now been in office for three full years , and during that time, the economy has created 6.56 million jobs. In the final full three years of Obama's presidency, the economy created 8.08 million jobs.
The White House, meanwhile, believes we should actually start the clock for Trump at November 2016 -- the month of the Republican's election -- and apply the jobs created during the final months of the Obama era to the current Republican president. But that still doesn't help: if we compare the last 39 months to the previous 39 months, job totals slowed from 8.68 million to 7.13 million.
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