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Why do people claim Obama created jobs?
When the Department of Labor and Training says otherwise?
http://www.dlt.ri.gov/lmi/laus/us/usadj.htm
Date: August 2011
Labor force: 153,594
Employed: 139,627
Unemployed: 13,967
Unemployment rate: 9.1%
Date: January 2011 (Congress was Split)
Labor force: 153,186
Employed: 139,323
Unemployed: 13,863
Unemployment rate: 9.0%
Date: January 2009 (Obama took office)
Labor force: 154,185
Employed: 142,201
Unemployed: 11,984
Unemployment rate: 7.8%
Date: January 2007 (Democrats took control of Congress)
Labor Force: 153,133
Employed: 146,033
Unemployed: 7,100
Unemployment rate: 4.6%
Date: January 2001 (Bush took Office)
Labor Force: 143,800
Employed: 137,778
Unemployed: 6,023
Unemployment rate: 4.2%
Date: January 1995 (Republicans took Congress)
Labor Force: 132,038
Employed: 124,663
Unemployed: 7,375
Unemployment rate: 5.6%
Date: January 1993 (Clinton took office)
Labor Force: 128,400
Employed: 119,075
Unemployed: 9,325
Unemployment rate: 7.3%
Congress: Democrat
Job Creation: -6,710
Unemployment Change: +6,763
Congress: Republican
Job Creation: +21,370
Unemployment Change: -275
President: Obama
Job Creation: -2,574
Unemployment Change: +1,983
President: Bush
Job Creation: +4,423
Unemployment Change: +5,961
President: Clinton
Job Creation: +18,703
Unemployment Change: -3,302
Government: Obama/Split congress
Job Creation: +304
Unemployment Change: +104
Government: Obama/Democratic congress
Job Creation: -2,878
Unemployment Change: +1,879
Government: Bush/Democratic Congress
Job Creation: -3,832
Unemployment Change: +4,884
Government: Bush/Republican Congress
Job Creation: +8,255
Unemployment Change: +1,077
Government: Clinton/Republican Congress
Job Creation: +13,115
Unemployment Change: -1,352
Government: Clinton/Democratic Congress
Job Creation: +5,588
Unemployment Change: -1,950
Scott Monster @ your right it's congress's job, and the Democratic Congress caused the mess.
itshotinjt @ because numbers don't lie, but politicians do.
5 Answers
- Scott MonsterLv 610 years agoFavourite answer
Who said he did? Its really not his responsbility under the Constitution.
Signed, A Liberal.
- 10 years ago
Why do people blame Obama for all of the problems? They were there when he took office! He was just elected at the wrong time. It's not like he would take office and everything will magically get better, It will take years! Bush screwed things up before he left. Politicians should be volunteers, there should be no career politicians. Take away their pay and I guarantee, things will get better! First of all, think about all of that money they get going back into the country!
- Anonymous10 years ago
It's the liberal media covering for his sorry a$$ policies and lies. Pure propoganda.
- ?Lv 710 years ago
Because he did.
The stimulus:
•Raised real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product by between 1.1 percent and 3.5 percent,
•Lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.7 percentage points and 1.9 percentage points,
•Increased the number of people employed by between 1.3 million and 3.5 million, and
•Increased the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) jobs by 1.8 million to 5.0 million compared with what would have occurred otherwise. (Increases in FTE jobs include shifts from part-time to full-time work or overtime and are thus generally larger than increases in the number of employed workers).
Source(s):
- wonderlichLv 610 years ago
These are the same people that voted for this clown.
Source(s): you can't expect much.
