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 ...

The chart considers the percentage change in unemployment ... the unemployment rate... So it makes you wonder who the job creators really are... As Chris notes, President Obama's only partway ...

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 ...

Over at the American Enterprise Institute's blog, economics writer James Pethokoukis re-ups a bigger version of what is quite possibly the only chart ... unemployment rate with and without Barack ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...