claim: "we've seen six months of positive job growth by the private sector."
author: timothy geithner
evidence_1: apr 3, 2016 ... how much can a president take credit for job growth in the private sector? ...  about the long, uninterrupted stretch of private-sector job growth. they've been  touting this streak for a long time now. so what's behind the claim? we decided to  dig. .... at this point, it has created jobs for five consecutive months.
evidence_2: jan 6, 2017 ... although the pace of employment growth in 2016 slowed compared to 2014 and  2015—the height of the economic recovery—last year's numbers put .... near full- employment,” said ahu yildirmaz, the lead economist and head of adp research  institute (which puts together the private-sector jobs report).
evidence_3: mar 16, 2017 ... we also note that this positive jobs trend is not something that began in january,  or even since the election. as we have noted previously, the economy added  more than 250,000 new jobs a month in 20 of the 96 months under president  obama. overall, the nation's economy added 11.5 million jobs under ...
evidence_4: january 6, 2017 at 9:30 am et by jason furman ... average hourly earnings for  private employees increased 2.9 percent in 2016, the fastest twelve-month pace  since the financial crisis. ... u.s. businesses have now added 15.8 million jobs  since private-sector job growth turned positive in early 2010. today, we learned  that ...
evidence_5: gov. scott walker fell short when it came to his top 2010 campaign promise --  that the state would add 250,000 private-sector jobs in his first term. but he would  have finished much closer had there been four years with the jobs growth seen in  2014 -- especially the final four months of the year. state employers added an ...