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White House claims credit for January jobs report
The White House is taking credit for January’s robust jobs report, saying that companies ramped up hiring amid optimism that President Trump would be more friendly to businesses than President Obama.
The economy added 227,000 new jobs in January, far greater than the 175,000 jobs economists had expected.
The report, the first since Trump took office on Jan. 20, also found the unemployment rate tick up to 4.8 percent because more Americans were looking for work.
Here's what Trump USED to say about jobs reports....way back when he was only 70 and a half....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/...nt-real-here-are-some-other-options.html?_r=0
The unemployment rate, he said in December, is “totally fiction.” He claimed at one point during the campaign that the real jobless rate was not the number below 5 percent widely cited by economists, but something like 42 percent.
The White House is taking credit for January’s robust jobs report, saying that companies ramped up hiring amid optimism that President Trump would be more friendly to businesses than President Obama.
The economy added 227,000 new jobs in January, far greater than the 175,000 jobs economists had expected.
The report, the first since Trump took office on Jan. 20, also found the unemployment rate tick up to 4.8 percent because more Americans were looking for work.
Here's what Trump USED to say about jobs reports....way back when he was only 70 and a half....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/...nt-real-here-are-some-other-options.html?_r=0
The unemployment rate, he said in December, is “totally fiction.” He claimed at one point during the campaign that the real jobless rate was not the number below 5 percent widely cited by economists, but something like 42 percent.