Employment

[Capt.Slog 0]

From US Dept. of Labor:

Average annual employment-growth rates for all 11 postwar presidents are listed below:

Total employment

• 1. Lyndon Johnson (1963-69), 3.74%

• 2. Jimmy Carter (1977-81), 3.11%

• 3. Bill Clinton (1993-2001), 2.42%

• 4. Harry Truman (1945-53), 2.38%

• 5. Richard Nixon (1969-74), 2.30%

• 6. John Kennedy (1961-63), 2.28%

• 7. Ronald Reagan (1981-89), 2.04%

• 8. Gerald Ford (1974-77), 0.95%

• 9. Dwight Eisenhower (1953-61), 0.87%

• 10. George H.W. Bush (1989-93), 0.59%

• 11. George W. Bush (2001-09), 0.28%

[jimmytavino 16]

we often only think of employment statistics, as they apply to UN employment..

these numbers are interesting, since they refer to employment growth... something i never much thought about...
The Democrats seem to fare much better than the Rebublicans, only Nixon did even close, and he was coming off the relative boom from the JFK LBJ administrations,, and the decent economy of the 60's,,, but the rest did pitifully..


can you rearrange the list, chronologically?, rather than from best to worst...?
that view would be very telling...

jimmytavino