Claims about jobs. And the numbers

by Chris Isidore @CNNMoney
June 22, 2017: 7:03 PM ET

... Soon after the election, weeks before he took office, Trump got a lot of attention for claiming he saved 1,100 jobs at a Carrier furnace plant in Indiana that were headed Mexico. In fact, 300 of those jobs were always slated to stay in Indianapolis, so it was 800 jobs that stayed in the U.S.

And Carrier has said publicly that some of those 800 saved jobs would eventually be eliminated by automation. But well before that happens, another 600 Carrier jobs are still moving to Mexico. About half of those layoffs will be in July, while the rest will come by Christmas ...

On June 1 he claimed that there had been "more than 1 million private sector jobs" created since he took office ... Without January the number of jobs added slips to under 1 million. In addition, the ADP report is markedly different from the official numbers issued by Trump's own Labor Department. The department's latest data, reported June 2, shows that about 600,000 jobs were added from February through May. Trump had taken credit for 600,000 new jobs back in April -- so that claim finally came true.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/22/news/economy/trump-jobs-claims/index.html