What did Donald Trump claim about the economy on 21 Jan 2020?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
And women now comprise a majority of the American workforce; that's for the first time.
Not the first time. Women first reached 50.0 percent of payroll jobs in June 2009 and outnumbered men on payrolls in December 2009.
A 2014 Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that women's share of nonfarm payroll jobs reached '50.0 percent for the first time in June 2009' and held there through April 2010. Its table shows, for example, 64,968 thousand women and 64,719 thousand men on payrolls in December 2009 (BLS, Monthly Labor Review).
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- Remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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