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Pelosi promised "Armageddon" if @GOP tax bill passed.

What happened instead?

Wages rose 4.5% for the bottom 25% over the past year – compared to 2.9% for the for the top 25%.

You don't need socialist policies to help low-income workers.
The @CBO projected that job growth would slow in 2017.

Instead, enough Americans have come off the sidelines to blow past those projections by 1.9 million.
Likewise, @CBO projected unemployment would level off at about 4.5%.

Instead, it continued falling and now stands 3.5% – the lowest in half a century.
For the first time since @BLS_gov began its "Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)," there are more job openings than unemployed people.
Unemployment rates among Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans have plummeted to the lowest levels on record.
Other groups that have had a harder time finding work are doing better, too.

In September, unemployment among people with disabilities fell to 6.1% – the lowest on record.

And we have had 15 consecutive months of lower unemployment for veterans than non-veterans (now 3.3%).
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