(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump, who frequently boasts that he's creating jobs, has another statistic to tout: Annual data revisions released Friday by the Labor Department showed the economy actually added 118,000 more workers than previously reported during his first year in office.
But for those keeping score, former President Barack Obama also gained: data were revised to show that there were 104,000 more jobs added in his last full year in 2016, part of a multi-year revision that added 230,000 workers to the previous total employment count. The new totals show 2.34 million jobs added in 2016 and 2.17 million in 2017.
--With assistance from Kristy Scheuble and Jordan Yadoo
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