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Bush Economy

Filed under: Imported

Monthly job growth rates since World War II:

Truman 1: 60,000 jobs gained per month
Truman 2: 113,000 jobs gained per month
Eisenhower 1: 58,000 jobs gained per month
Eisenhower 2: 15,000 jobs gained per month
Kennedy: 122,000 jobs gained per month
Johnson: 206,000 jobs gained per month
Nixon 1: 129,000 jobs gained per month
Nixon/Ford: 105,000 jobs gained per month
Carter: 218,000 jobs gained per month
Reagan 1: 109,000 jobs gained per month
Reagan 2: 224,000 jobs gained per month
G. Bush: 52,000 jobs gained per month
Clinton 1: 242,000 jobs gained per month
Clinton 2: 235,000 jobs gained per month
G.W. Bush: 69,000 jobs LOST per month

For more on these figures go here.

Cribbed from the Minnesota Labor listserv.

Posted by Paul Demko at April 26, 2003 11:07 AM

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