The final jobs report of 2024 showed another 256,000 jobs added in December 2024, with unemployment dipping to 4.1%. It was the 48th month in a row of growth, the second longest on record, and makes Joe Biden the first president in history to not have a single month with job losses.

Remember these numbers.

Trump inherited a strong economy in 2016-2017, and by 2019, his policies had already squandered it. Ohio lost jobs between January 2019 and January 2020 (before COVID hit), the first year of job loss since the Great Recession. Since he’s promising the same policies (or even more extreme ones), I expect the same squandering to happen.