By multiple measures, workers are faring poorly under Donald Trump compared to his predecessor. Yet Trump keeps telling workers that because of him they are doing better. Let’s examine the facts.
The latest news shows that growth in the last three months of 2019 was at a modest pace of 2.1 percent. That’s a third of what candidate Trump promised (a ridiculous promise that many believed). It’s lower than the 3.2 percent average growth of the last 73 years. And it’s lower than during the second Obama term.
Gross Domestic Product growth has been slower each year Trump has been in office, we reported earlier. Continue reading.