Joe Biden speaks during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention on August 20, 2020, at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Statement from President Joe Biden on the November 2024 Jobs Report
America’s comeback continues. Today’s report shows that the economy created 227,000 jobs in November, as Boeing machinists returned to work with record wage gains and hurricane recovery continued. Unemployment of 4.2% is in the same low range of the past seven months. This has been a hard-fought recovery, but we are making progress for working families.
Biden was a spectator at his first DNC. Now, at his 13th, he’s an incumbent president passing the torch
When Joe Biden traveled to Miami Beach for his first Democratic National Convention in 1972, his presence generated little more than a footnote.

