“Without taking off those regulations -- I mean, look at what we've done just in terms of pipelines -- 48,000 jobs from almost day one -- 48,000 jobs on, really, things that were never going to get built. ”
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Topic: Jobs
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Trump appears to be combining two disputed figures — 28,000 jobs for Keystone XL and 12,000 for the Dakota Access Pipeline-- and then hyping it even more. We have looked closely at the Keystone numbers, and the same methodological issues appear to apply to the Dakota estimates. The actual number of Keystone construction jobs, for instance, is just 3,900 on an annualized basis — and other jobs have already been created (such as for building high-strength line pipe.) In the context of the U.S. economy, which just in December added 148,000 jobs, these are not many jobs.