"The number of jobs created in December was the lowest in three years, and while the official unemployment number dropped to 6.7%, that was almost entirely due to more than half a million people giving up looking for work.Of course, a month of data doesn't mean much.So, for some badly needed perspective, we've created Obama's Jobs Index to show how Obama's policies have failed to create adequate job growth.
6.3 million: Net new jobs created since Obama's recovery started in June 200913.8 million: New jobs that would have been created had Obama's kept pace with the average of the previous 10 recoveries.
3.6%: Growth in private jobs since Obama took office.43%: Growth in the number of temp jobs.
91.8 million: Number of people not in the labor force as of December.525,000: Increase since November.11.2 million: Increase since Obama took office.
6.7%: Jobless rate 54 months into Obama's recovery.5.1%: Unemployment rate 54 months into George W. Bush's "jobless" recovery.
13.1%: Jobless rate in Dec. using a broader measure — U6 — which includes people marginally attached to labor force or working part time for economic reasons.9.2%: Average U6 rate in Bush's eight years in office.
26%: Share of adults who say at least one household member is unemployed, based on IBD/TIPP Poll data.10%: Share who say a household member had work hours cut because of ObamaCare.
3.9 million: Number of people who've been jobless 27 weeks or more in December.2.7 million: That number when Obama took office.
37 weeks: Average length of unemployment in Dec.20 weeks: Average length when Obama took office.
861,000: Number of discouraged workers in Dec.734,000: Number when Obama took office.
58.6%: Current employment-to-population ratio.61%: Ratio when Obama took office.62%: Average employment-to-population ratio in the 30 years before Obama took office.
$1,006: Drop in median household income during the 2007-09 recession.$2,535: Drop in median income after the recession ended in June 2009, according to Sentier Research.
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