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Unemployment Has Nowhere to Go But Up for Trump
Just once in the past four decades was the jobless rate lower. That didn't last.
Not many lines like this these days.
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Fox News recently took some heat for posting a graphic listing unemployment rates at the 100-day mark of various presidents’ terms. Here, for reference, is a slightly more complete list:
People ridiculing Fox’s graph note that at this stage of a presidency, unemployment is almost entirely determined by what happened during the previous president’s term. With the exception of 1980, the U.S. has tended to elect Democratic presidents when the economy is bad. If we look at how the unemployment rate changed during the course of each presidency, we get a different picture: