Posted on 03/30/2018 6:57:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As he ran for president, Donald Trump promised to lift up regions of the country that had been left behind by the economy. “I want to go into the neglected neighborhoods, the failing schools, the forgotten stretches of this nation, and unlock their potential for all of our people,” he said in September 2016.
The argument proved persuasive — many of the nation’s most economically distressed regions voted for Trump.
Now the early returns are in: In the first year of the Trump presidency, places that voted for Trump are doing better economically than at the end of the Obama administration. But that is not totally surprising, because the overall economy has continued to add jobs.
What may be more surprising is that not only are these counties adding jobs, but also job growth has accelerated the most in counties where Trump earned the most votes, according to a Washington Post analysis of Labor Department data.
In other words, even if the counties that supported Trump most are still struggling relative to the rest of the country, they’ve experienced the largest reversal of fortune.
It’s too soon to declare victory, however, and the current set of gains may well be short-lived.
But for now, the data indicate that the 10 percent of Americans living in counties that gave Trump the most support in 2016 saw average job growth of 0.6 percent in 2015-2016. They saw job growth of 1 percent in Trump's first year. Expand to counties that were home to the top 20 percent of his supporters — places where he got 60.6 percent of the vote or higher — and the acceleration was a still-perceptible 0.2 percentage points.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Have to give the Post their due. In a world full of positive financial data about Trump, they are doing their best to tell us it’s temporary and all a mirage.
or could not ...
Bezos to the WaPo editors: “Team, always look for the dark cloud in the silver lining. Get Trump!”
Pure wishful thinking on the part of the DNC propaganda sheet, the Washington Post.
You can manufacture all the fake polling data you want. Consumer confidence and economic growth rate numbers cannot be so easily manipulated to fit the DC Politcal/Media machines agenda.
Well, of course, we all know that those areas are doing well because of what ObaMao accomplished during his glorious reign.
WaPo, trying their damnedest to throw water on the fires of freedom and liberty....................
What the WaPo isn’t saying is that “it will be short lived if the RATs take the House”.
Well it could be if democrats seize the government and impose job killing regulations like obamas.
They are still implicitly declaring "peak Trump". Eventually, they will be right. I'd guess that will happen in a little over six years.
I have never spent a dime on amazon because I will not support bezos.
Companies relocate factories to experience short term blips in the economy.
Andrew Van Pretzel
“It’s too soon to declare victory, however, and the current set of gains may well be short-lived.”
Wishing ill will on the Nation. Traitors.
“I have never spent a dime on amazon because I will not support bezos.”
I use their resources as search engine. I find it on Amazon then buy direct from the company that shows when I search a product thereby avoid giving Amazon’s a cut.
The WaPo would be short lived if it weren’t on welfare from the CIA and Amazon.
Or it could be long-lived. You never know.
They are hoping. And, their hope springs eternal.
--and it could accelerate!
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