Trump Failing on His Biggest Promise to Americans: Jobs

BY CHRIS RIOTTA ON 9/1/17 AT 11:03 AM

Donald Trump stood before supporters at Manhattan’s Waldorf Astoria hotel in September and vowed, as he had done many times before, that he'd be the "greatest jobs president that God ever created" if elected to the Oval Office.

"This is the most pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-family plan put forth perhaps in the history of our country," the Republican candidate said. "We’re going to turn this thing around."

Seven months into his presidency, job growth has slowed from the days under former President Barack Obama, when virtually all demographics of Americans were enjoying new job creation. Now, unemployment is ticking upward, as just 156,000 jobs were added to the American economy in August, the Labor Department reported Friday.

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It’s the slowest job growth in August in six years, marking Trump’s first summer in office as the slowest in overall job growth in four years, according to historical data provided by the Labor Department. The number of jobs added during the summer months of June, July and August plummeted under Trump, to 555,000, down from 764,000 new jobs in 2016 during Obama’s last summer in office.

Experts tell Newsweek the latest employment numbers are “disappointing” across the board, reflecting an overall declining trend beginning shortly after Trump took office.

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