White House Press Release - President Trump Inherited Many Challenges

A STAGNANT U.S. ECONOMY IN NEED OF REINVIGORATION: President Donald J. Trump is committed to addressing the economic woes that have plagued our Nation for too long.

• In the last eight years, nearly 13 million Americans have left the workforce, bringing the total number of those outside the workforce to 94 million.
• Nearly 1 in 4 Americans in their prime-working years are not working.
• The United States has lost about 60,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization.
• The United States has lost over one-fourth of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA was approved.
• The United States trade deficit in goods was nearly $800 billion last year.
• The United States has the third highest corporate tax rate in the world.
• The structure of Nation's trade arrangements has cost millions of American jobs.