MSNBC: U.S. Job Growth in Biden's First Year Tops 6.4 Million

By Steve Benen | January 7, 2022

“The economy created nearly as many jobs in President Joe Biden's first year as were created in Donald Trump's first three years combined. . . .

“. . . In fact, before last year, Americans saw the best annual job growth in the 21st century in 2014, when the economy created over 3 million jobs. The second best came a year later, when the economy created an additional 2.7 million.

Soon after, Trump took office, at which point job growth in the United States slowed down — even before 2020 recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

But in 2021, the economic recovery, fueled in part by the Democrats' American Rescue Plan, generated job gains unseen in generations. I put together this chart to help drive home the point, showing job growth by year since the Great Recession. . . .”

Read the full article from MSNBC HERE.