2024 presidential candidates on job creation

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This page includes statements from the 2024 presidential candidates on job creation. These statements were compiled from each candidate's official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and debates.

The candidates featured on this page are the noteworthy Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Only candidates who address this page's issue on their campaign website, in public statements, or in public speeches have a quote featured on this page. See something we missed? Email us. The active noteworthy presidential candidates are:

Kamala Harris (D)
Donald Trump (R)
Chase Oliver (L)
Jill Stein (G)

Job creation

Democratic candidates

Joe Biden

In a campaign speech Biden said, "Look, and we’re living through one of the greatest job-creation periods in history. That’s because we decided — and some of you have helped me a great deal, including the members of Congress, in investing in America. Invest in America." ^{[source, as of 2023-09-13]}

Kamala D. Harris

Harris' campaign website said, "Working with President Biden, Vice President Harris helped pass landmark legislation—the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the American Rescue Plan—that has supported more than 60,000 infrastructure projects, spurred more than $900 billion in private sector investments, and doubled investments in construction of new manufacturing facilities. This has included investing billions to help connect all Americans to accessible, affordable internet. After decades of offshoring, manufacturing is returning across America, from major cities to rural counties, creating good-paying jobs, including union jobs and jobs for those without college degrees. Under the Biden-Harris Administration, more than 1.6 million manufacturing and construction jobs have been created and American workers are rebuilding roads and bridges using materials made in America. Three times more auto jobs per month have been created under their watch than under the Trump Administration—even before the pandemic. And with these investments, the Biden-Harris Administration is showing how America can meet the moment and build the industries of the future while creating high-quality union jobs in the electric vehicle and battery supply chains. As President, Kamala Harris will build on this Administration’s progress to ensure American industries and workers thrive. Vice President Harris will continue to support American leadership in semiconductors, clean energy, AI, and other cutting edge industries of the future. She’ll also fight for unions, because as Vice President of the most pro-labor administration in history, she knows that unions are the backbone of the middle class. She’ll sign landmark pro-union legislation, including the PRO Act to support workers who choose to organize and bargain and the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act to make the freedom for public service workers to form unions the law of the land. During her leadership as Vice President, unions representing those from auto workers to truck drivers to care workers won record wage increases amidst record job creation with clear support for the right to collectively bargain from the White House." ^{[source, as of 2024-09-09]}

Marianne Williamson

Williamson's campaign website said, "The Williamson Administration will [...] establish and fund a Civilian Climate Corps. The program would create jobs in environmental justice, restoration of public lands, and installation of renewable energy." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-19]}

Republican candidates

Ron DeSantis

In an op-ed DeSantis wrote, "We will unleash our domestic energy sector, modernize and protect our power grid and advance American energy independence, thereby increasing our economic and national security, reducing inflation and fueling a manufacturing renaissance that will create jobs, revitalize our communities and improve our standard of living. ^{[source, as of 2023-08-07]}

Nikki Haley

Haley’s campaign website said “When Nikki became governor, South Carolina faced record unemployment and years of economic decline. Nikki threw herself into bringing jobs to her home state and proving that South Carolina—and America—could be a manufacturing powerhouse. Nikki cut taxes, nixed burdensome government regulations, and made small businesses a state priority. At the end of Governor Haley’s tenure, more South Carolinians were working than at any other time in history, and South Carolina was outperforming the national average. Thanks to her efforts, South Carolina’s economy was nicknamed ‘the Beast of the Southeast.’” ^{[source, as of 2023-12-19]}

Asa Hutchinson

In his campaign annoucement, Hutchinson said, "As President, I will open doors for more worker training and better pay and we will require work for able-bodied welfare recipients. This will grow our manufacturing workforce and we will prove that we can still make things in the United States." ^{[source, as of 2023-04-02]}

Vivek Ramaswamy

Ramaswamy's campaign website listed the following policy, "Put Americans back to work: dismantle Lyndon Johnson’s failed 'Great Society.'" ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}

Donald Trump

Trump’s campaign website said, “Under my policies, we had virtually no inflation. We had tremendous job creation. We had rapid wage growth for the first time in many, many years. And we had more than 17,000 new factories open up for business right here in the USA. Through my Strategic National Manufacturing Initiative, we will do it again. We'll be bigger and better and stronger than we've ever been. And we did a great job two years ago. We'll do even better this time.” ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}