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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4917564" data-attributes="member: 66082">In a two-month period, February to April 2020, <a href="https://fortune.com/2020/05/08/record-u-s-unemployment-rate-worst-since-1940/" target="_blank">the unemployment rate soared to an 80-year high</a> and the number of employed Americans <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS" target="_blank">fell from 152.5 million to 130.3 million</a>. Those 22.2 million job losses set U.S. employment back to 1999 levels.Since, <a href="https://fortune.com/2020/06/03/is-the-recession-over-us-economy-predictions-2020-coronavirus-stock-market-unemployment/?fbclid=IwAR2vpNhUJ8Gyb16IZStK1iSi0t_b-z9YtKNhT-60Ei_Vgxbg1VTuxVxNk7s" target="_blank">the economy has moved from contraction to expansion</a> and seen 12.3 million jobs return. However, it hasn&#039;t been enough to offset the job losses that occurred during the pandemic.That means that Trump will become the first post–World War II president to see employment fall during his presidency. It last occurred when Herbert Hoover left office in 1933 amid the early years of the Great Depression.When Trump took office in Jan. 2017, U.S. employment was at 145.6 million. On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its final jobs report before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. It shows in December there were 142.6 million employed Americans, down 3 million from Trump&#039;s own inauguration.This is trump&#039;s economic record as potus</blockquote>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4917564, member: 66082"] [B][I]In a two-month period, February to April 2020, [URL='https://fortune.com/2020/05/08/record-u-s-unemployment-rate-worst-since-1940/']the unemployment rate soared to an 80-year high[/URL] and the number of employed Americans [URL='https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS']fell from 152.5 million to 130.3 million[/URL]. Those 22.2 million job losses set U.S. employment back to 1999 levels.[/I][/B] Since, [URL='https://fortune.com/2020/06/03/is-the-recession-over-us-economy-predictions-2020-coronavirus-stock-market-unemployment/?fbclid=IwAR2vpNhUJ8Gyb16IZStK1iSi0t_b-z9YtKNhT-60Ei_Vgxbg1VTuxVxNk7s']the economy has moved from contraction to expansion[/URL] and seen 12.3 million jobs return. However, it hasn't been enough to offset the job losses that occurred during the pandemic. T[B][I]hat means that Trump will become the first post–World War II president to see employment fall during his presidency[/I][/B]. It last occurred when Herbert Hoover left office in 1933 amid the early years of the Great Depression. [B][I]When Trump took office in Jan. 2017, U.S. employment was at 145.6 million. On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its final jobs report before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. It shows in December there were 142.6 million employed Americans, down 3 million from Trump's own inauguration.[/I][/B] This is trump's economic record as potus [/QUOTE]

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