Trump’s Job-Growth Claims at GM, Wal-Mart Don’t Stack Up
- Some claims of adding workers predated November’s election
- Large companies have announced total of more than 200,000 jobs
GM Investing $1B in U.S., Announces 7,000 Jobs
President-elect Donald Trump has made job creation one of his signature issues, setting off a flurry of corporate pledges to hire more workers. But not every job-growth announcement stacks up.
For many companies, including General Motors Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., new promises to add jobs are repackaged versions of plans that were already in place before the election. They would have been carried out regardless of who’s living in the White House, analysts say.