{"id":1842039,"date":"2023-02-10T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842039"},"modified":"2023-02-10T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:22:07","slug":"fact-checking-bidens-claim-he-created-12-million-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checking-bidens-claim-he-created-12-million-new-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Checking Biden\u2019s Claim He Created 12 Million New Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-checking-bidens-claim-he-created-12-million-new-jobs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842039&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5d898542-4bc3-4d18-b113-369404083726.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2023\/02\/07\/read-it-transcript-of-bidens-state-of-the-union-address-n2619275\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Flub-filled State of the Union Address<\/a> This week, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/miacathell\/2023\/02\/08\/biden-sotu-deficit-fact-check-n2619327\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">These are lies America&#8217;s economy is in trouble<\/a>, <span>President Joe Biden repeated an often-repeated claim regarding the number of jobs he claims he has. &#8220;created&#8221; Since he entered Oval Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>CLAIM:\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;<\/span><span>Two years ago, the economy was reeling. I stand here tonight after we&#8217;ve created, with the help of many people in this room, 12 million new jobs\u2014more jobs created in two years than any president has created in four years\u2014because of you all, because of the American people,&#8221; Biden claimed Tuesday night during the speech in the House Chamber of Congress at the U.S. Capitol.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BIDEN: &#8220;Two years ago, the economy was reeling. I stand here tonight after we&#8217;ve created&#8230;12 million new jobs.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XZdp6qxznw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/XZdp6qxznw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1623143915208450050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>FACTS:\u00a0<\/strong>As\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/miacathell\/2022\/12\/08\/white-house-job-creations-fact-check-n2616903\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Townhall was once deconstructed<\/a><\/span><span>, Biden&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><span>Definition of job creation includes the creation of new jobs and the natural return to work of workers after the government shut down of U.S. businesses that had ravaged American industry and driven working-class Americans home. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/archives\/empsit_05082020.pdf\" id=\"isPasted\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The U.S. Department of Labor<\/a>Between March 2020 &#8211; April 2020, the nation lost over 20 million jobs. Although we&#8217;re creating jobs again, Biden&#8217;s claims about jobs creation don&#8217;t account for net gain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden was inaugurated in the midst of the country&#8217;s recovery from the unexpected job losses that resulted from the 2020 government-mandated pandemic lockdowns. While the nation&#8217;s jobs recovery began under President Donald Trump, most of the gains in the economy-revival cycle were made during Biden\u2019s tenure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is literally evidence that Biden was handed something on a golden platter,&#8221; Douglas Holtz Eakin is the chief of American Action Forum, an independent think tank. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/oct\/13\/joe-biden\/un-spinning-white-house-chart-bidens-job-gains\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PolitiFact &#8211;<\/a>. &#8220;This recovery from a deep recession would have happened no matter who was president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Biden is seeing some positive effects from the COVID-19 outbreak&#8217;s effects on economic activity and the rehirings of workers who lost their jobs due to the shutdowns. But the labor-force participation rates is still below pre-pandemic levels. According to the Census Bureau, the January figure of adults with a job or looking for one fell to 62.4%. This is lower than the pre-pandemic level at 63.4%. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Summary of America&#8217;s Employment Situation, February 3, 2003<\/a> Released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, most Americans\u201460% of them\u2014believe that Biden has not created more &#8220;good jobs&#8221; In their communities <span>You can find more information at\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/03\/jan-27-feb-1-washington-post-abc-news-poll\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post-ABC News poll<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0Published February 3, 2009.\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/06\/poll-americans-dont-feel-biden-impact\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Find it<\/a><\/span><span>. This compares to the 33% of Americans who believe otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden claims that he has created 12,000,000 new jobs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember that 60% of Americans believe that Biden has not made any progress in creating good jobs for their communities in yesterday&#8217;s Washington Post Poll. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8yTzW78FT9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/8yTzW78FT9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattdizwhitlock\/status\/1623143180009889792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden boasts that in just two years he has created more job opportunities than any other politician. &#8220;any president has created in four years,&#8221; <span>By percentage, Biden&#8217;s purported job growth during his presidency is less than the full term of his predecessors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>U.S. jobs, percantage-wise\u00a0<\/span><span>Biden&#8217;s watch, Biden has seen his presidency grow by 8.5% in the time since he began it. This is less than former President Barack Obama&#8217;s first term.\u00a0<\/span><span>(8.6%), President Bill Clinton\u2019s first term (10.5%), President Ronald Reagan\u2019s second term (11.2%) and President Jimmy Carter\u2019s four years at the White House (12.8%).\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/02\/07\/us\/biden-state-of-the-union?smid=url-share#as-i-stand-here-tonight-we-have-created-a-record-12-million-new-jobs-more-jobs-created-in-two-years-than-any-president-has-ever-\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times calculates<\/a><\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This metric is used to calculate: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2023\/feb\/07\/joe-biden\/joe-bidens-boast-about-job-creation-needs-some-ast\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PolitiFact measurements<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0Biden&#8217;s percentage job gains exceeds that of former President Richard Nixon&#8217;s 13.2% and President Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s 21.3% respectively. Clinton&#8217;s 20.9% is the highest increase since the beginning their terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>RATING:<\/strong> Biden often speaks out in favor of job creation.<span>\u00a0Inadvertent claim that credit has been given for the recovery of previously lost jobs<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Flub-filled State of the Union Address This week, where he These are lies America&#8217;s economy is in trouble, President Joe Biden repeated an often-repeated claim regarding the number of jobs he claims he has. &#8220;created&#8221; Since he entered Oval Office. CLAIM:\u00a0&#8220;Two years ago, the economy was reeling. I stand here tonight after we&#8217;ve created, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1842042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[14599,3706,4893,5455,4330],"class_list":["post-1842039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-fact-checking","tag-bidens","tag-claim","tag-created","tag-jobs"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}