The Department of Labor reports today that the economy added 178,000 jobs in November and that the unemployment rate dropped from 4.9 to 4.6 percent. (Must be thanks to that sweet sweet Carrier deal!) For the longer view, here's what has happened under the careful, unbiased gaze of the media since the year after President Obama took office:
Economy created 15.6M private-sector jobs since Feb. 2010. (This fact probably got less media coverage than Trump's 800 jobs at Carrier) pic.twitter.com/hYQdK4fgmd— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) December 2, 2016
At the end of President Obama's term, we'll be compiling a snapshot of social and economic indicators as a baseline to judge how much neo- fascist incompetent shitgibbon Donald "Rump" Trump MAGA during his reign of error, because your mainstream corporate media certainly won't be keeping track.