“The door is open,” Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma declared as he announced plans to create a million new U.S. jobs after meeting with Pres.-elect Donald Trump – but, he’s not the only major employer to publicize plans to hire since the election.
Between Election Day (Nov. 8) and Trump’s inauguration (Jan. 20), more than a dozen large companies have joined Alibaba in announcing they will be adding American jobs or canceling plans to outsource them.
And, unlike Pres. Obama’s fuzzy-math claims of Stimulus job creation, these are at least 1.16 million jobs that have been actually created or saved since the election – before Trump has even taken the oath of office.
- GM: 1,000+
- Walmart 10,000
- Bayer 3,000
- Lockheed 1,800
- Amazon 100,000
- Alibaba 1,000,000
- Fiat 2,000
- Sprint 5,000
- Tesla-Panasonic 1,400
- SolarCity 3,500
- IBM 25,000
- Carrier 1,000
- Ford 5,000
- Apple (undisclosed number of jobs added to 2013 expansion plans)
Total: 1,158,700
While the president-elect has been quick to take credit for announcements like these, just how much of this is actually due to the Trump Effect is unknown. But, one thing is clear: business optimism, like the stock market, appears to be up.