when vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump take debate Expect them to take the stage in Philadelphia on Tuesday night with Reserve of talking points about U.S. economy.
In the weeks leading up to the in-person debate hosted by ABC News, both Harris and Trump unveiling new economic advice. They also seek to portray competitors as threats to the health and stability of the U.S. economy.
Keep these key numbers in mind as candidates try to paint the economy in favorable terms on Tuesday.
inflation and prices
People walk past a produce store in Brooklyn, New York City, on August 14, 2024.
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- 1.4%: Consumer Price Index for January 2021, at the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration. President Joe Biden has repeatedly The claim that he inherited 9% inflation from Trump is false.
- 9.1%: CPI at June 2022The height of the post-pandemic inflation surge under Biden is also the highest since 1981.
- 2.9%: annual July CPI The latest reading this year. This is the lowest 12-month inflation rate since March 2021.
- 19.4% According to CNBC analysis, prices have risen cumulatively since Biden and Harris took office. consumer price index data. Trump is false claim Since January 2021, cumulative prices have soared by more than 50%.
- 7.8%: According to CNBC’s analysis of CPI data over time, prices have risen cumulatively in the four years since Trump took office.
jobs and wages
On August 29, 2024, Republican presidential candidate and former US President Trump visited Porterville, Michigan, the United States. A staff member stood on a ladder that day.
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- 14.8%: Unemployment rate hits record high in April 2020 single month During the Trump administration, employers experienced significant job losses due to Covid-19. This was also the time Maximum monthly rate since Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment was first tracked in 1948.
- 6.4%: The unemployment rate is at January 2021When Biden and Harris took office. This is the highest monthly rate so far in the Biden-Harris administration.
- 17.6%: this average hourly wage That number has increased since Biden took office, according to a CNBC analysis of BLS data. Biden claim During his presidency, wage growth outpaced inflation, but that was not the case as prices accumulated 19.4%.
- 15.9 million: Jobs created so far by the Biden-Harris administration Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
- 2.7 million: The number of net job losses during the Trump administration is largely due to the economic recession caused by the epidemic.
- 6.7 million: These jobs were added between January 2017, when Trump took office, and February 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic plunged the U.S. job market.
Deficits, spending and debt
Exterior view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC, on September 9, 2024. Members of the Senate and U.S. House of Representatives return to the Capitol after recessing in August.
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- $8.4 trillion: Estimated total net spending by the Trump administration. Independents said the figure represents the total amount of borrowing Trump has approved over a 10-year period minus the amount of deficit reduction he has approved. committee for a responsible federal budget. If the Covid-19 stimulus and relief packages are removed from the total, that number drops to $4.8 trillion.
- $4.3 trillion: Estimated total net spending during Biden’s first three and five months in office, according to CRFB data. Without Biden’s main epidemic stimulus plan, the American Rescue Plan, the net total would fall to $2.2 trillion.
- 39.1%: According to CNBC’s analysis of U.S. Treasury data, the U.S. national debt grew by a percentage from the day Trump took office to the day Biden took office. Congressional Research Service.
- 30.6%: According to CNBC analysis, from Biden’s inauguration day to this month, the U.S. government debt increased by % Treasury data.
gross domestic product
- 2.7%: Based on average annual growth in U.S. gross domestic product from 2017 to 2019, the first three years of Trump’s presidency before the economic collapse caused by Covid-19 World Bank data. GDP measures the value of goods and services produced in the United States.
- 3.4%: From 2021 to 2023, the first three years of the Biden-Harris administration, the average annual GDP growth rate in the United States. That number has increased due to a hot 2021, in part because Trump and Biden passed a series of pandemic-era stimulus packages.
stock market
The S&P 500 vs. the Dow vs. the Nasdaq Composite since the day Trump took office.
- 12.3%: average rate of return S&P 500 Index According to data, 2021 to 2023 are the first three years of the Biden-Harris administration Berkshire Hathaway.
- 16.3%: The average return of the S&P 500 from 2017 to 2019 (Trump’s first three years in the White House).