Our Economy: In a Way Everyone Can See

You don't need three college degrees from MIT to know how our economy is doing

• These are the total non-government jobs held by American
• It starts dropping a lot in the last Bush months
• Obama takes office on January 20th 2009
• Jobs go up after February 2010.  It has been going up since. 
• Jobs gained since February 2010, end of the recession: 3,664,000  (3.6% of all jobs in America) 
• Jobs gained since February 2009, Obama's first full month in office: 176,000  (0.17% of all jobs in America)

• This second chart is the change of jobs from month to month
• When Bush was president we lost more and more jobs every month.  That is not a total loss in jobs, that is just the one month job loss
• When Obama passes the Stimulus in February 2009 we lose fewer and fewer jobs
• As you can see, we gain jobs every month after March 2010

Simple right?  When someone tells you that Obama has made things worse then they either don't know the facts or they think you are too stupid to do research on your own.

Data from bls.gov (the people who do the job numbers).  If you want to double check go to http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cesbtab1.htm, check 'private' under 'seasonally adjusted' and make your own graph!

Revisions
Edit (2/4/12): BLS revised November and December numbers and released January numbers.  Both graphs and 'jobs gained since' updated to reflect current data.

Edit (12/21/11): BLS revised October and November numbers and released December numbers.  Both graphs and 'jobs gained since' updated to reflect current data.

Edit (12/21/11): BLS revised September and October numbers to be higher than previously assumed and released November numbers.  Both graphs and 'jobs gained since' updated to reflect current data.


Edit (11/11/11):  BLS revised August and September numbers to be higher than previously assumed and released September numbers.  Both graphs and 'jobs gained since' updated to reflect current data.