Pence’s Jobs Claim: Fact Checked

I watched Vice President Prence’s convention speech last night. He made several claims, including one about the Trump administration creating 9.3 million jobs over the last three months.

That’s a lot of jobs. So I wanted to check and see if that was true.

It is. over the last three months, the administration has created 9.3 million jobs.

But in the two months before that?

They lost 22.2 million jobs.

They have another 12.9 million jobs to create just to get back to where we were, and that doesn’t include the jobs required for the natural increase in population and immigration.

Credit for the piece is mine.

Author: Brendan Barry

I am a graphic designer who focuses on information design. Most recently I worked for the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and prior to that I was Head of Design at Euromonitor International with my design team split between Chicago and London.

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