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 23,136,000: The Number Of Americans Who Are Unemployed, Underemployed, Or Have Stopped Looking For Work. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
12,544,000: The Number Of Unemployed Workers. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
8,031,000: The Number Of Workers Working Part-Time For Economic Reasons. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
5,033,000: The Number Of Workers Who Have Been Unemployed For 27 Weeks Or Longer. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
1,043,000: Construction Jobs Lost Since President Obama Took Office. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
582,000 Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since President Obama Took Office. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
368,000: Workers That Dropped Out Of The Labor Force In August. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
261,000: Jobs Lost Since President Obama Took Office. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
41,000: Downward Revision Of Jobs Created Over The Last Two Months. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
15,000: Manufacturing Jobs Lost In August. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
1981: The Last Time The Labor Force Participation Rate Was At Its Current Level Of 63.5 Percent. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
43: Consecutive Months The Unemployment Rate Has Remained Above Eight Percent. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)

39.2 Weeks: The Average Duration Of Unemployment – Nearly Double The 19.8 Weeks When President Obama Took Office. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
14.7 Percent: The Real Unemployment Rate, Including Those Who Are Working Part-Time Due To Economic Reasons.Includes t hose who have given up looking for jobs (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)  (Many have helped swell the ranks of those on food stamps (40 million plus) and other government assistance under Obama, that may contribute to not encouraging people to look for jobs-editor's note(
11.2 Percent: The Unemployment Rate Had Labor Force Participation Remained Steady Since President Obama Took Office. (American Enterprise Institute, 9/7/12)
8.4 Percent: The Unemployment Rate Had Labor Force Participation Remained Steady From July. (American Enterprise Institute, 9/7/12)
8.1 Percent: The Unemployment Rate In August. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
7.8 Percent: The Unemployment Rate When President Obama Took Office. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 9/7/12)
5.4 Percent: The Unemployment Rate President Obama’s Advisers Predicted If We Passed His $787 Billion Stimulus. (Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, “The Job Impact Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Plan,”1/9/09)

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A scorecard on the economy under Barack Obama

By Louis Jacobson
Published on Friday, June 1st, 2012 at 4:01 p.m.

See how the economy has changed since Obama was elected in 2008.

In the hotly contested presidential campaign between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney there is one undisputed point: the central issue is the state of the Americaneconomy.

End of agreement.

Were the country’s economic troubles deeper than expected when Obama took office in January 2009? Were his ideas and actions effective in righting the nation’s economic ship? Are things getting better? If so, are they getting better fast enough?

From both parties, the political rhetoric will be contentious for the next five months and, by its very nature, oversimplified. But below the fury there are objective metrics as to how the economy has performed on Obama’s watch and where it stands today.

PolitiFact.com, the independent fact-checking operation of the Tampa Bay Times, has produced a scorecard — key economic measures to track where the economy stood a year before Obama took office, where it was when he assumed power and how it has trended through May 2012.

We’ve gathered statistics for everything from corporate profits to the price of ground chuck. To help you see which ones are up or down, we’ve shaded most of the statistics from white (the most positive number) to dark (the least positive).  We offer figures for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 — either an annual figure for the whole year or the monthly figure for January of that year. We also added a column for the most recent figures available.

Some analysis suggests the mixed record that most Americans feel:

• Gasoline prices, the rate of poverty, food stamp use and the federal debt are worse today than when the president took office.

• The unemployment rate, personal income and the stock market turned worse but are improving.

• Corporate profits, mortgage rates and the level of consumer debt are better today.

But the point of the scorecard is for you, the voters and consumers of political speech, to have factual measures by which to judge what you hear. The perspective you bring to it is all yours.

About these charts

To help you see how the numbers trend, we’ve shaded the statistics from white (the most positive number) to dark (the least positive). We haven’t shaded the numbers for government jobs because of differing opinions over whether more government employment is helpful to the economy.

Jobs	2008	2009	2010	2011	January 2012	April/May 2012
Unemployment rate	5%	7.8%	9.7%	9.1%	8.3%	8.2%
Broader unemployment rate “U-6″	9.2%	14.2%	16.7%	16.1%	15.1%	14.8%
White unemployment rate	4.4%	7.1%	8.7%	8.1%	7.4%	7.4%
Black unemployment rate	9.1%	12.7%	16.5%	15.7%	13.6%	13.6%
Hispanic unemployment rate	6.5%	10%	12.6%	12%	10.5%	11%
Total private-sector jobs	115.6 M	111 M	106.8 M	108.2 M	110.5 M	111 M
Total government jobs	22.4 M	22.6 M	22.5 M	22.2 M	22 M	22 M
Median weeks unemployed	9	10.7	20.1	21.7	21.1	20.1

Income	2008	2009	2010	2011	January 2012	April/May 2012
Yearly GDP	$13.2 T	$12.7 T	$13.1 T	$13.3 T	–	$13.5 T
Disposable personal income per capita	$33,229	$32,166	$32,481	$32,667	–	$32,677
Personal bankruptcies	1,074,225	1,412,838	1,536,799	1,362,847	–	–
Poverty rate	12.5%	13.2%	14.3%	15.1%	–	–
People receiving food stamps	–	32 M	39 M	44 M	46 M	46 M

Homes	2008	2009	2010	2011	January 2012	April/May 2012
Median home sale price	$232,400	$208,600	$218,200	$240,100	$221,700	$235,700
New homes sold in that month	44,000	24,000	24,000	21,000	23,000	33,000
Existing home sales, annualized	4.2 M	3.8 M	4.2 M	4.5 M	4.6 M	4.6 M
Foreclosure starts	0.88%	1.08%	1.2%	1.27%	0.99%	0.96%

Business	2008	2009	2010	2011	January 2012	April/May 2012
Corporate profits	$1.2 T	$1.4 T	$1.8 T	$1.9 T	–	–
Bank failures	25	140	157	92	61	–
Corporate bankruptcies	43,546	60,837	56,282	47,806	–	–
Industrial production	100.4	87.4	87.4	92.5	96.5	97.4
Consumer confidence	87.3	37.4	56.5	64.8	61.5	64.9
Dow Jones Industrial Average	13,044	9,035	10,584	11,671	12,397	12,393
Labor productivity	103	103	109	110	111	–

Prices	2008	2009	2010	2011	January 2012	April/May 2012
Overall inflation	4.3%	0%	2.6%	1.6%	2.9%	2.3%
Food and beverage inflation	4.8%	5.2%	-0.4%	1.8%	4.4%	3.1%
Loaf of white bread	$1.32	$1.40	$1.36	$1.40	$1.42	–
Pound of ground chuck	$2.78	$2.99	$2.84	$3.07	$3.32	–
Gallon of milk	$3.84	$3.34	$3.21	$3.39	$3.53	–
Pound of apples	$1.28	$1.11	$1.07	$1.13	$1.18	–
Pound of sugar	$0.51	$0.57	$0.63	$0.66	$0.71	–
Gasoline prices	$3.16	$1.74	$2.72	$3.12	$3.36	$3.73
Residential natural gas per unit	$12.24	$12.49	$10.56	$9.79	$9.55	$9.40

Debt and savings	2008	2009	2010	2011	January 2012	April/May 2012
Personal savings rate	5.4%	5.1%	5.3%	4.7%	–	3.9%
Outstanding credit card debt	$948.5 B	$955.5 B	$856.2 B	$794.7 B	$800.8 B	$803.6 B
Household debt rate	18.4%	18.5%	17.4%	16.2%	15.9%	–
Mortgage rates	5.76%	5.06%	5.03%	4.76%	3.92%	3.91%

Federal government	2008	2009	2010	2011	January 2012	April/May 2012
Federal discretionary spending as percent of GDP	7.9%	8.9%	9.4%	9%	–	8.5%
Federal mandatory spending as percent of GDP	11.1%	15%	13.3%	13.5%	–	14.4%
Annual federal deficit	$458 B	$1.41 T	$1.29 T	$1.3 T	–	$1.33 T
Cumulative public debt	$5.14 T	$6.37 T	$7.81 T	$9.39 T	$10.45 T	$10.95 T

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