Trump’s
list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months, ‘relentless’ promise-keeping
Economic Growth
- 4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
- For the first time in more than a decade, growth is
projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.
Jobs
·
4
million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5
million since Trump took office.
·
More
Americans are employed now than ever before in our history.
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Jobless
claims at lowest level in nearly five decades.
·
The
economy has achieved the longest positive job-growth streak on record.
·
Job
openings are at an all-time high and outnumber job seekers for the first time
on record.
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Unemployment
claims at 50 year low
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African-American,
Hispanic, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached
record lows.
o African-American
unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018.
o Hispanic unemployment
at 4.5 percent.
o Asian-American
unemployment at record low of 2 percent.
·
Women’s
unemployment recently at lowest rate in nearly 65 years.
o Female unemployment
dropped to 3.6 percent in May 2018, the lowest since October 1953.
·
Youth
unemployment recently reached its lowest level in more than 50 years.
o July 2018’s youth
unemployment rate of 9.2 percent was the lowest since July 1966.
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Veterans’
unemployment recently hit its lowest level in nearly two decades.
o July 2018’s veterans’
unemployment rate of 3.0 percent matched the lowest rate since May 2001.
·
Unemployment
rate for Americans without a high school diploma recently reached a record low.
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Rate
for disabled Americans recently hit a record low.
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Blue-collar
jobs recently grew at the fastest rate in more than three decades.
·
Poll
found that 85 percent of blue-collar workers believe their lives are headed “in
the right direction.”
o 68 percent reported
receiving a pay increase in the past year.
·
Last
year, job satisfaction among American workers hit its highest level since 2005.
·
Nearly
two-thirds of Americans rate now as a good time to find a quality job.
o Optimism about the
availability of good jobs has grown by 25 percent.
·
Added
more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the election.
o Manufacturing
employment is growing at its fastest pace in more than two decades.
·
100,000
new jobs supporting the production & transport of oil & natural gas.
American Income
- Median household income rose to $61,372 in 2017, a
post-recession high.
- Wages up in August by their fastest rate since June
2009.
- Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017,
the most in a decade.
- Council of Economic Advisers found that real wage
compensation has grown by 1.4 percent over the past year.
- Some 3.9 million Americans off food stamps since the
election.
- Median income for Hispanic-Americans rose by 3.7
percent and surpassed $50,000 for the first time ever in history.
- Home-ownership among Hispanics is at the highest rate
in nearly a decade.
- Poverty rates for African-Americans and
Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels ever recorded.
