Trumps Accomplishments

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Unprecedented Economic Boom Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy. • America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections. • Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration. • The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century. • Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hiring’s. • More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million. • Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low. • The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record. • Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades. Delivered a future of greater promise and opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds. • Unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows. • Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years. • Lifted nearly 7 million people off of food stamps. • Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows. • Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade. • The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth. • Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase. • African American home ownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent. Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA. • Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs. • Put in place policies to bring back supply chains from overseas. • Small business optimism broke a 35-year old record in 2018. Hit record stock market numbers and record 401ks. • The DOW closed above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020. • The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have repeatedly notched record highs. Rebuilding and investing in rural America. • Signed an Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products, which is bringing innovative new technologies to market in American farming and agriculture. • Strengthened America’s rural economy by investing over $1.3 billion through the Agriculture Department’s Reconnect Program to bring high-speed broadband infrastructure to rural America. Achieved a record-setting economic comeback by rejecting blanket lock downs. • An October 2020 Gallup survey found 56 percent of Americans said they were better off during a pandemic than four years prior. • During the third quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent – the most rapid GDP growth ever recorded. • Since corona virus lock downs ended, the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than half the jobs lost. • Jobs have been recovered 23 times faster than the previous administration’s recovery. • Unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in December, from a pandemic peak of 14.7 percent in April – beating expectations of well over 10 percent unemployment through the end of 2020. • Under the previous administration, it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10 percent to under 7 percent compared to just 3 months for the Trump Administration. • Since April, the Hispanic unemployment rate has fallen by 9.6 percent, Asian-American unemployment by 8.6 percent, and Black American unemployment by 6.8 percent. • 80 percent of small businesses are now open, up from just 53 percent in April. • Small business confidence hit a new high. • Home builder confidence reached an all-time high, and home sales hit their highest reading since December 2006. • Manufacturing optimism nearly doubled. • Household net worth rose $7.4 trillion in Q2 2020 to $112 trillion, an all-time high. • Home prices hit an all-time record high. • The United States rejected crippling lock downs that crush the economy and inflict countless public health harms and instead safely reopened its economy. • Business confidence is higher in America than in any other G7 or European Union country. • Stabilized America’s financial markets with the establishment of a number of Treasury Department supported facilities at the Federal Reserve.