Valerie Jarrett: We should also give Obama credit for low unemployment
by Caitlin Yilek
| May 04, 2018 10:16 AM
Former President Barack Obama’s top adviser Valerie Jarrett dodged on giving President Trump credit for the lowest unemployment rate in almost two decades.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday that the U.S. economy added 164,000 jobs in April, pushing the unemployment rate down to 3.9 percent, the lowest since 2000.
When asked on CNN’s “New Day†if Jarrett gives Trump credit for that, she deferred to giving Obama credit for starting the trend.
“Look, I think we have to look at it over a longer horizon than that,†she said. “If you think about what the economy was like when President Obama took office, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. Under his watch, the unemployment rate dropped in half and it’s encouraging to see that we’re continuing to make progress.â€
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