YAHOO Jan. 25, 2017

Give Trump credit for his focus on jobs

A lot of CEOs visited the White House while Barack Obama was president. Most of the meetings were unpublicized. If they helped create any jobs, Obama never mentioned it.

It will still be months or years before it’s possible to tell if Trump actually moves the needle on the economy, by helping generate the kind of middle-income jobs that have been disappearing during the last two decades. Showmanship alone won’t do it. And companies issuing press releases every time they hirefive people won’t stop the automation that threatens as much as half of today’s workforce.

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