Over the past 53 months, our business have created nearly 10 million new jobs. We’re on a streak where, the last six months, we’ve created more than 200,000 jobs each month -– that’s the first time that’s happened since 1997. American manufacturing is steadily creating jobs for the first time since the 1990s. Our businesses export more goods made right here in America to the rest of the world than ever before. America is stronger because we saved the American auto industry and more than one million jobs that depend on the auto industry. Today, our workers are building more cars than any time since 2002 and The auto industry is adding jobs at the strongest rate since the 1990s. America is stronger because we invested in homegrown energy. The world’s number-one oil and gas producer -- it’s not Russia, it’s not Saudi Arabia -- it’s the U.S. of A. And for the first time in nearly 20 years, America now produces more oil than we buy from other countries. But we’re also producing more clean energy, putting folks back to work. We’ve tripled the amount of wind power that creates energy. We’ve increased by 10 times the amount of solar power we create. We helped more middle-class families afford college. Today, thanks to outstanding teachers, our high school graduation rate is at a record high. More young people are earning their college degrees than ever before. But, look, none of this progress has come easy. Every inch of it we have had to fight for. Every inch of it we’ve had to work against a lockstep opposition that is opposed to everything we do. But it was worth it. Every gray hair is worth it - President Obama
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:26:22 +0000