Jan 26, 2011 ... While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs. Let me show you a  chart. Here are unemployment rates over the past 10 years. In October of 2001,  our national unemployment rate was at 5.3%. In 2008, it was at 6.6%. But just  eight months after President Obama promised lower unemployment, ...
During the “Great Recession,” which took place from late-2007 through mid-2009 , the economy steeply contracted and nearly 8.7 million jobs were lost. Consumer  spending experienced the most severe decline since World War II.Households  cut spending, shed outstanding debt, and increased their rate of personal  savings ...
Apr 1, 2016 ... But that job growth is stretched over almost six full years, during which time the  working age population grew by 15.8 million. In that respect, we've lost ground on  jobs under Obama. What's more, that 14.4 million ... During that time, the  population grew by more than 20 million. In other words, there's a jobs ...
grows from nearly 143.1 million to more than 163.5 million. This 14.3-percent  growth reflects the assumption of a full- employment economy in 2020. Out of 749  .... When looking at growth rates, we see that general and opera- tions managers  are projected to grow by only 4.6 percent while interpreters and translators are ...
Jan 13, 2016 ... The president backed up his optimism with these statistics: "We're in the middle of  the longest streak of private-sector job creation in history. More than 14 million  new jobs; the strongest two years of job growth since the 1990s; an  unemployment rate cut in half." He's correct...if you look at the data in the most ...
While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs.