The monthly unemployment rate for July 2020 was 10.2%. This is the 43rd unemployment report with Trump in office, his 43rd month recorded for this list. This brings Trump's average unemployment rate for his term in office to date, up from 4.61% in June 2020 to 4.74% in July 2020.
The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?
Gerald Ford: 7.77%
Average Unemployment Rates for US Presidents since after World War II:
01. Lyndon Johnson: 4.19%
02. Harry Truman: 4.26%
03. Donald Trump: 4.74%
04. Dwight Eisenhower: 4.89%
05. Richard Nixon: 5.00%
06. Bill Clinton: 5.20%
07. George W. Bush: 5.27%
08. John Kennedy: 5.98%
09. George H.W. Bush: 6.30%
10. Jimmy Carter: 6.54%
11. Barack Obama: 7.45%
12. Ronald Reagan: 7.54%
13. Gerald Ford: 7.77%
There are 5 months left in Trumps first Presidential term.
The labor force participation rate is at 61.4% for July 2020, down from 61.5% in June 2020.
You don’t suppose the lockdowns have impacted recent numbers?
I think the failure of a proper response to the pandemic has impacted the numbers and will continue to impact the numbers unless and until the #1 priority becomes containing and destroying the virus. There is no return to normal with the virus infecting over 60,000 people a day and killing 1,500 people a day.
Seasonal flu on average only kills 40,000 people a year in the United States. The coronavirus has killed 150,000 people in just 4 months.
You’re right. Lockdowns and their impact on delaying herd immunity as well as stifling the economy has everything to do with the bad numbers. That totally skews any legit comparisons to other admins.
Letting the virus run uncontrolled through the population in order to achieve Herd immunity would be a disaster. The United States approach has been a failure because the country has done very little to contain the virus. Its why 160,000 Americans are dead, compared to only 7 dead in TAIWAN. TAIWAN is the worlds gold standard for policy on the coronavirus and what to do about it. Had the United States followed TAIWAN's lead, and sealed the country back in January, the United States would only have less than 160 dead rather than 160,000 dead and rising. No one in TAIWAN has died in nearly 3 months.
The US is unique as a travel hub and we took steps that were trashed by democrats. Get over it.
TAIWAN was more exposed to the pandemic than any other country in the world due to its travel links and proximity with China. Yet, as of today, this country of 24 million people has less than 500 infections and only 7 deaths. TAIWAN is the gold standard for responding to this pandemic. Sadly, the United States has had nearly the worst response of any country on the planet in fighting this pandemic.
Taiwan is an island.
True, but relative to China, so are the two American Continents. The two American continents are not connected to any other landmass and are separated by thousands of miles of ocean from China, far more than the 90 miles that separates China from Taiwan. Covid-19 came into the United States from several points Asia and Europe through AIR TRAVEL. It also arrived in the United States by Air Travel from South America.
There is no evidence that ANYONE walked across a land border from Mexico or Canada and spread coronavirus in the United States.
That shows that TAIWAN has little to no advantage over the United States in stopping covid-19 simply because of geography. In fact, TAIWAN's much greater proximity to China, greater travel and trade links, made it far more vulnerable than the United States. John Hopkins University predicted TAIWAN would suffer more than any country. Yet, after almost a year, TAIWAN has only 7 deaths compared to 280,000 in the United States. TAIWAN has had no deaths since May 2020, while the United States just the other day had 2,800 deaths in one day.
Most people arrive in TAIWAN through Air Travel. Most people arrive in the United States through Air Travel. Remember that! The United States had the ability to block the virus like TAIWAN did, but failed because Donald Trump never took the virus seriously.
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