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The small drop in number of employed Americans you see just past the "2006" mark is when the DemoKKK-rats took over Congress in '07; the levels were stabilizing until in 2009, when Obuma took office, when the large drop started
This formulation is wearing thin, but the "good news" is the US unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent last month. The bad news is that the U3 figure dropped for all the wrong reasons, and other crucial indicators looked decidedly gloomy -- again:
Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 115,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 8.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in professional and business services, retail trade, and health care, but declined in transportation and warehousing. Both the number of unemployed persons (12.5 million)...
Yes. From after 9/11 then Katrina; 2 major economic disasters. We were heading/ could have been fallen, but the Republicans in Congress and Bush kept us afloat with their policies, to include the Bush tax cuts.
Not until the Dems took control of Congress on Jan. 3, 2007 did we start to see real trouble - 11 months later the nation went into a recession, then their rubberstamp got in and super-sized it.