Jan 15, 2016 ... The irony is that President Obama - who is not viewed as a friend of the oil and  gas industry - has presided over rising oil production in each of the seven years  he has been in office. (On a separate note, expect that streak to be broken in  2016). From that low point in 2008, U.S. oil production has grown each ...
Apr 12, 2016 ... No, Mr. President, we're not angry at that. We're angry at politicians in  Washington, including you, who ignore the men and women who elected you,  who have been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years." Cruz  has a point that the United States has seen jobs go overseas during the seven ...
Jul 11, 2016 ... Summary. Since President Barack Obama first took office: The economy has  added more than 10 million jobs, and job openings are at a 15-year high. The  unemployment rate has dropped well below the historical norm, but long-term  unemployment remains higher than at the start of the Great Recession.
Apr 28, 2016 ... “I actually compare our economic performance to how, historically, countries that  have wrenching financial crises perform,” he said. ... Unemployment, which  peaked at 10 percent the year Obama took office, the highest it had been since  1983, under Ronald Reagan, is now 5 percent, lower than when ...
Apr 3, 2016 ... It looks like Obama is responsible for that long stretch of job growth. Is that true?  Probably not. Yes, the president has some influence (more on that later), but he  doesn't sit at the economy's steering wheel. Even a former Obama economic  advisor Austan Goolsbee says that a president has little control over ...
Says President Barack Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years."