Cumulative NFP Job Creation In First Four Years, By President

Menzie Chinn
By Menzie Chinn of Econbrowser.com
Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin •

What does job creation by Presidents look like. Here's a look a the first-term efforts of recent POTUSes.

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Figure 1: Nonfarm payroll employment relative to first month of administration, in logs, for Biden (blue), for Trump (orange), for Obama (green), for GW Bush (red), and for Clinton (chartreuse). Source: BLS, and author’s calculations.

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