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President Trump Inherited Many Challenges
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 10:08
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A STAGNANT U.S. ECONOMY IN NEED OF REINVIGORATION: President Donald J. Trump is committed to addressing the economic woes that have plagued our Nation for too long.
- In the last eight years, nearly 13 million Americans have left the workforce, bringing the total number of those outside the workforce to 94 million.
- Nearly 1 in 4 Americans in their prime-working years are not working.
- The United States has lost about 60,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization.
- The United States has lost over one-fourth of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA was approved.
- The United States trade deficit in goods was nearly $800 billion last year.
- The United States has the third highest corporate tax rate in the world.
- The structure of Nation’s trade arrangements has cost millions of American jobs.
Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/28/president-trump-inherited-many-challenges
