22.2 million new jobs have been created from 1993 to 2001, the most jobs ever created under a single Administration -- and more new jobs than Presidents Reagan and Bush created during their three terms. 91 percent (19.9 million) of the new jobs have been created in the private sector, the highest percentage in 50 years
The poverty rate has fallen from 15.1 percent in 1993 to 12.7 percent in 1998. That?s the lowest poverty rate since 1979 and the largest five-year drop in poverty in nearly 30 years
Unemployment was down from 7.5 percent in 1992 to 4.0 percent in June 2000, and in April the unemployment rate was the lowest in over 30 years. The unemployment rate has fallen for seven years in a row, and has remained below 5 percent for 34 months in a row.
In 1992, the Federal budget deficit was $290 billion - the largest dollar deficit in American history. In January 1993, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the deficit would grow to $455 billion by 2000. The Office of Management and Budget projected a $211 billion surplus for 2000 - the third consecutive surplus and the largest surplus ever, even after adjusting for inflation.
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Successfully negotiated the Kyoto Protocol, which sets strong, realistic targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and establishes flexible, market-based mechanisms to achieve them as cost-effectively as possible.
Increased research funding to more than $1.7 billion in FY 2000 to provide a sound scientific understanding of both the human and natural forces that influence the Earth?s climate system.
Directed federal agencies to reduce energy use in buildings 35 percent by 2010, reducing annual greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of taking 1.7 million cars off the road and saving taxpayers over $750 million a year.
The President?s 1996 National Space Policy commits the nation to a strong, stable, and balanced space program. The FY 2001 budget request of $14 billion will enable NASA to continue to pursue the Clinton-Gore Administration?s priorities in human space flight, earth sciences, advanced space transportation, aviation safety, & space science. Through the 21st Century Research Fund for America, the President adds $200 million over the next year to NASA?s space science program.
Increasing Funding for Nanotechnology Research with a $227 million increase in the National Nanotechnology Initiative.
Developing Cleaner Energy to Reduce Greenhouse Emissions, via a $4 billion package of tax incentives to spur the purchase of energy efficient products and the use of renewable energy.
$125 million for new ?Fathers Work? grants will help approximately 40,000 low-income non-custodial parents (mainly fathers) work, pay child support, and reconnect with their children.
The Clinton Administration ended a decade of repression and reversed ethnic cleansing in Kosovo by leading NATO alliance to victory in 79-day air war against Serb forces, forcing their withdrawal, ushering in international peacekeepers, and launching the Stability Pact to strengthen democracy, prosperity and integration throughout the Balkans.
Highest Homeownership Rate in History, 67.2% in the 2nd quarter of 2000.
i could post some more if you like, and before you ask for sources, you look up the facts in any source you deem reliable, since i don't read the national review regularly or the jerry fallwell newsletter or watch fox news and you most likely would reject sources like cnn and like as lying liberal institutions. Get your own trusted sources and look up the facts.
oh i almost forgot the standarized label on all food products was a product of the clinton administration.
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