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“I believe that NAFTA will create a million jobs in the first five years of its impact.”
— President Bill Clinton, remarks at the signing ceremony for the supplemental agreements to the North American Free Trade Agreement, Sept. 14, 1993
Twenty-five years ago this month, President Bill Clinton stood in front of an audience at the White House that included three former presidents and made one of the most ridiculous job-creation predictions on record. Regular readers of The Fact Checker know we always warn that job predictions should be taken with a grain of salt. But this was an unusually bold prediction by the president at an event to advocate for congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The strange tale about why Bill Clinton said NAFTA would create 1 million jobs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/21/strange-tale-about-why-bill-clinton-said-nafta-would-create-million-jobs/?utm_term=.8c82a2343158