Looking at the chart, most of the unemployment rate decline happened during the Obama presidency. Mount Rushmore will have to wait to be graced with another president. Salesmanship might be ...

I was intrigued by one damning chart in her State of the Union response Tuesday night. It hits on perhaps the biggest criticism of President Obama: the high unemployment rate, even after the $800 ...

Klein included what might be described as "the chart that will get President Obama fired." The incoming Obama Administration's projections for what the unemployment rate would be if no stimulus ...

Experts continue to debate the conflicting signals, but an equally telling question might be: How does the “Trump economy” compare to Barack Obama’s? President Trump constantly refers to the ...

Number of U.S. jobs He displayed the same tendencies regarding the unemployment rate. He touted rates were inflated and incorrect as shown in the chart below during 2012 to 2016. After he was ...

Job losses under President Obama’s watch have increased steadily without remission. The unemployment rate is stuck at 10 ... (See the chart below.) In the opposite scenario, during a period ...

In the chart below, I’ve provided unemployment ... confident conclusion about how much each tick in the unemployment rate affects Mr. Obama’s re-election odds. But the real world is not ...

There has been a fair amount of rhetoric about the job growth and lower unemployment rate seen since President ... 9% larger than when President Obama took office. If the workforce were to only ...

A chart from the U.S. Bureau of Labor ... The joke a few years ago was that Obama would shrink the unemployment rate to zero through the magic formula of driving millions out of the workforce.

Obama loves to tout his administration's record 75 straight months of job growth – although he declined to drop the number Tuesday night – as well as the fall in the unemployment rate from a ...

The chart (below) shows three lines: The incoming Obama Administration's projections for what the unemployment rate would be if no stimulus was enacted in the depths of the financial crisis (light ...

While there’s ongoing debate about how much influence presidents really have over the economy, the charts below illustrate the trends under then-President Barack Obama and Trump. The United ...