When President Obama came into office, the national unemployment rate was 7.8 percent and rose to as high as 10 percent in October 2009. Today it is 5.9 percent, however:<\/p>\n

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• The number of people who are not in the labor force has grown<\/strong>, despite a growing working-age population, by 12.1 million.<\/li>\n
• The number of people who are not in the labor force who want a job has grown by more than 640,000<\/strong> during the Obama Administration. Many simply gave up on trying to find a job in the Obama economy. <\/strong><\/li>\n
• The employment-to-population ratio has remained consistently below 60 percent<\/strong> during Obama\u2019s tenure and has barely budged and has been at 59.0 percent since June of 2014; in contrast, the ratio averaged 62.9 percent between the beginning of the year 2000 through when Obama assumed office.<\/li>\n
• The labor force participation rate has continued to trend downward during Obama\u2019s tenure<\/strong>, from 65.7 percent when he took office to its current low of 62.7 percent.<\/li>\n
• Payroll job growth has been tepid<\/strong> over Obama\u2019s tenure: it has averaged only 135,000 per month since the end of the recession.<\/li>\n
• While over 7.4 million payroll jobs were lost during the recession, there has only been a net 4.7 million jobs created over Obama\u2019s tenure.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  All this data combined points to a nation in trouble. If\u00a0Democrats want to remain relevant, they can start by being\u00a0honest about the state of the economy, end their addiction to Wall Street influence and money, and begin to serve the people they were elected to represent.<\/p>\n

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  If you dig around the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website, you will learn that 20 percent of American families do not have a single person employed and 41 percent of all civilian, working-age Americans are without a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,45],"tags":[698,2488,555],"yoast_head":"\n