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9. Here's another of my Imgur masterpieces
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 03:50 PM
Feb 2018
Job Creation of record of post-WWII Presidents, Average Annual % Increases :

(Sorted from best to worst by average annual percentage increase in jobs. Republicans in red, Democrats in blue.)

Notice that -- with the tiny exception (0.02% difference) of Nixon to Kennedy -- the worst Democrat has a better record than the best Republican. That is, until Obama, who inherited an economy that was losing several hundred thousand jobs a month. And actually, Kennedy did not have a chance to complete his term -- had he done so, and had he had the same job creation numbers in December 1963 through January 1965 as Johnson had (a 3.48%/year annualized rate of increase), he would have easily topped Nixon.

Presidents ranked by Average Annual Percentage Increase In Jobs:

UPDATE image to include Trump

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Anyway, I'm working on this for my update of my Economic Statistics "page" at http://www.democraticunderground.com/111622439
where I'm still waiting for some numbers from tomorrow's (Friday's) BLS jobs report.

Here's what it looked like when all the HTML formatting was working
https://web.archive.org/web/20160411173355/http://www.democraticunderground.com/111622439

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