Amazon Hiring For 100K New Jobs, Trump Tries To Take Credit Again

Amazon plans to add 100,000 new “full-time, full benefit” jobs across the country over the next 18 months, the company announced Thursday, while president-elect Donald Trump was quick to take the credit.

Amazon’s workforce, one of the biggest in the country, will grow from 180,000 in 2016 to more than 280,000 by mid-2018. Over the past five years alone, Amazon created more than 150,000 jobs in the United States.