Want Evidence of Biden’s Jobs Boom? Look at Georgia.
The truism among historians that presidents can't take credit for the economy is belied by evidence that this administration’s policies are an unrivaled employment juggernaut.
Georgia’s economy is working under Joe Biden.
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Georgia, whose population of more than 11 million makes it the eighth-largest state, is booming like it never did before Joe Biden became the 46th president.
Not since such data initially was collected in 1990 has there been a three-year period when growth in the Peach State's manufacturing payrolls came close to matching the 11.9% increase in jobs since 2021 or its rate of employment gains compared with the US overall, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. There’s no denying that Georgia’s labor market is superior to that of Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, whose four years in the White House coincided with Georgia manufacturing employment declining faster than the rest of the nation (a dubious trend of every presidency in the new century except Biden's).