Thread by @TheValuesVoter

With the #JobsReport being released today, here is how every President in the last 55 years has done in terms of the number of jobs added to the US economy during the first 47 full months of their term.

Trump's term ranks last out of these 14 Presidential terms.

This data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov) and was calculated by adding all the monthly jobs report for each month of every Presidential term, from February of the year of inauguration until December of the year of the next election. 47 months.

Here are the numbers:
1) Clinton (02/1993-12/96) - 11.349 million jobs added.
2) Clinton (02/1997-12/00) - 11.346 million jobs added.
3) Reagan (02/1985-12/88) - 10.526 million jobs added.
4) Carter (02/1977-12/80) - 10.253 million jobs added.

5) Obama (02/2013-12/16) - 10.179 million jobs added.
6) Johnson (02/1965-12/68) - 9.666 million jobs added.
7) Nixon (02/1969-12/72) - 5.829 million jobs added.
8) Reagan (02/1981-12/84) - 5.074 million jobs added.
9) Nixon/Ford (02/1973-12/76) - 4.831 million jobs added.

10) Bush (02/1989-12/92) - 2.334 million jobs added.
11) Bush (02/2005-12/08) - 2.065 million jobs added.
12) Obama (02/2009-12/12) - 1.017 million jobs added.
13) Bush (02/2001-12/04) - 0.074 million jobs lost.
14) Trump (02/2017-12/20) - 3.003 million jobs lost.

So far, a net 3.003 million jobs have been lost from US payrolls since Trump's first monthly jobs report in February, 2017.

The only other President during this period to have lost jobs at the 47 month mark was George W. Bush, who had lost 74,000 jobs in his first term.

But the US economy added 150,000 jobs in January, 2005, allowing Bush to close out his first term with a small net gain of jobs.

Unless the US economy somehow gains over three million jobs this month (extraordinarily unlikely), Trump will become the first President since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs during the span of a four year Presidential term.