The piece by the Washington Post points to President Biden having to deal with the effects of a two year pandemic that whipsawed the American Economy and almost everything else….
THAT has hurt Joe Biden’s poll numbers ….
Things ain’t always ‘fair’….
Both presidents’ economic records have been defined by the pandemic and its aftershocks. The covid crisis upended the job market, stoked decades-high inflation and added trillions of dollars to the federal debt.
The economy today is vastly different from it was in 2017, when Trump took office. But the data shows just how each administration has left its mark: Biden, by adding 14 million jobs in less than three years, bringing the Black unemployment rate to a record low and reducing student loan debt by billions. Trump, meanwhile, presided over a period of low inflation, low interest rates and low gas prices.
Here are 12 charts showing the state of the economy now vs. under Trump…..