If you don't blame Obama or Romney for their first years in office, before their own policies had had time to take effect, the result is this: Obama has created a net 3.635 million jobs. Applying the same rules to...
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(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) President Barack Obama waves to the crowd at his election night party celebrating his victory over challenger Mitt Romney. Do you remember Mitt Romney’s election-year promise to create 12 million jobs dur... Read Post
Jared Bernstein breaks down the basis for Romney's promise to create 12 million jobs: That’s about what you’d expect in terms of job creation in a normal American job market over four years. It sounds great right now—and “normal” wo... Read Post
On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney likes to say some variation of the claim that as governor he created more jobs in Massachusetts than President Obama has created in the entire country. To make that claim stack up, Romney cites net... Read Post