GOBankingRates published a gallery listing jobs created for each presient from Calvin Coolidge to Donald Trump. One has to take this with a bit of salt considering we're talking about very different conditions, and lengths of time in office, for each president. But it's interesting anyway.
Calvin Coolidge - +5,051,000
Herbert Hoover - -8,510,000
Franklyn D. Roosevelt - +12,776,000
Harry S. Truman - +8,698,000
Dwight D. Eisenhower - +3,539,000
John F. Kennedy - +3,572,000
Lyndon B. Johnson - +12,184,000
Richard M. Nixon - +9,180,000
Gerald R. Ford - +2,071,000
Jimmy Carter - +10,343,000
Ronald Reagan - +16,128,000
George H.W. Bush - +2,633,000
Bill Clinton - +22,904,000
George W. Bush - +1,357,000
Barack Obama - +11,572,000
Donald Trump - -3,907,000
So despite what you hear, Trump, mostly thanks to his mishandling of the pandemic, is one of only two of the last 16 presidents to have a job shrinkage. The other one was Hoover who got walloped by the Great Depression.
The two that surprised me were Eisenhower and Carter. I thought Eisenhower would be much higher as he was president during the boom times of the 1950s, and Carter whose presidency was pretty much a total disaster with the gas shortages and inflation.
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