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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Economy Does Much Better Under Democrats. Why? [View all]
https://nyti.ms/36xgxoaG.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen more slowly under Republicans for nearly the past century.
By David LeonhardtGraphics by Yaryna Serkez
Mr. Leonhardt is a senior writer at The Times. Ms. Serkez is a writer and graphics editor for Opinion.
Feb. 2, 2021, 5:00 a.m
A president has only limited control over the economy. And yet there has been a stark pattern in the United States for nearly a century. The economy has grown significantly faster under Democratic presidents than Republican ones.
Its true about almost any major indicator: gross domestic product, employment, incomes, productivity, even stock prices. Its true if you examine only the precise period when a president is in office, or instead assume that a presidents policies affect the economy only after a lag and dont start his economic clock until months after he takes office. The gap holds almost regardless of how you define success, two economics professors at Princeton, Alan Blinder and Mark Watson, write. They describe it as startlingly large.
Since 1933, the economy has grown at an annual average rate of 4.6 percent under Democratic presidents and 2.4 percent under Republicans, according to a Times analysis. In more concrete terms: The average income of Americans would be more than double its current level if the economy had somehow grown at the Democratic rate for all of the past nine decades. If anything, that period (which is based on data availability) is too kind to Republicans, because it excludes the portion of the Great Depression that happened on Herbert Hoovers watch.
The six presidents who have presided over the fastest job growth have all been Democrats, as you can see above. The four presidents who have presided over the slowest growth have all been Republicans.
The big question, of course, is why. And there are not easy answers.
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Yes. Just this morning my daughter was complaining about her Trumpy economy teacher
Buckeyeblue
Feb 2021
#5
But are Republican policies actually better for the rich? Relative to working class people, maybe,
tclambert
Feb 2021
#15
I'll give one: Overall, liberals BELIEVE in government of, by and for the people
Hortensis
Feb 2021
#9
We also invest in potential--the potential for something creative and small to grow
Mike 03
Feb 2021
#11
"Over the last four decades... Republicans have run up larger deficits than Democrats"
malthaussen
Feb 2021
#12
This has been true for such a long time....WHY CAN'T DEMOCRATS PUBLICIZE THIS BETTER?
LiberalLovinLug
Feb 2021
#14
No, its not the news networks fault. We need to have a discussion on progressive messaging ...
uponit7771
Feb 2021
#21
TBF, you just left out the whole Progressive Teddy Roosevelt Era. Deffo NOT a big business
Celerity
Feb 2021
#19
Not difficult: Ds invest in people. Rs invest in trickle down. People work, trickles don't
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2021
#17