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Four of the top five presidents in terms of total jobs added were Democrats. For these 13 presidents beginning with Truman, total job creation was 2.4 times faster under Democrats, 70.5 million for the seven Democratic presidents and 29.1 million for the six Republican presidents.
The first American women enlisted into the regular armed forces were 13,000 women admitted into active duty in the U.S. Navy during the war. They served stateside in jobs and received the same benefits and responsibilities as men, including identical pay (US$28.75 per month), and were treated as veterans after the war.
From April 1945 to August 2023, of the 115 million net jobs added, 83 million (72%) were under Democrats and 32 million (28%) were under Republicans. [8] Economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson estimated job growth at 2.6% annually for Democratic presidents, about 2.2 times faster than the 1.2% for Republican presidents, for the 1949–2012 ...
President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 during his first 100 days in the White House, an economic stimulus bill to address the COVID-19 pandemic. [216] Biden signed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, [217] [218] which incorporated aspects of his American Jobs Plan.
Paxson, Frederic L. America at War 1917–1918. American Democracy and the World War volume 2 (1936) Schaffer, Ronald. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State (1991) ch 3–5; Scheiber, Harry N. "World War I as Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Willard Straight and the American International Corporation."
During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs that had either been vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war, or had been created as part of the war effort. The high demand for weapons and the overall wartime situation resulted in munitions factories collectively becoming the largest employer of American women by ...
This was the last election in which the Democrats won New Hampshire until 1936 and the last in which the Democrats won Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming until 1932. This would also be one of four times in which the winning ...
In fact, many did not remain "down on the farm"; there was a great migration of youth from farms to nearby towns and smaller cities. [16] The average distance moved was only 10 miles (16 km). Few went to the cities with over 100,000 people.