It was on the rise. It was REALLY was on the rise after Barry's stimulus cratered!
It was on the decline when Trump took office and has continued to decline because of his economic policies.
Now that I've answered your simple question how about you answer mine? What Obama economic policy created jobs and lowered unemployment?
So you admit that the decline began under Obama. Good boy. Trump has continued Obama’s good economy...for now.
Well if you look at it...unemployment was going up until the Democrats got shellacked in the first midterm...losing both the House and the Senate! Then and only then did the economy start to improve because Barry couldn't push his liberal agenda.
I notice that you avoided answering my question again, Seawytch! You really don't know much about what Barack Obama's economic policies WERE...do you? If he was such a great President with the economy then it should be easy for you to point out what HE did to lower unemployment and create jobs yet you struggle to do so. Why is that?
Just stop. Trump hasn't done dick...except continue the good economy he was handed. Good on him for not screwing it up yet. (Not for lack of trying...ahem, trade war).
What Kind Of 'Jobs President' Has Obama Been — In 8 Charts
All of this is to say that Trump inherits a job market that is humming along comfortably, given how poor of shape it was in only recently. But it's also an economy that has sharply moved away from manufacturing and other goods-producing industries — the very ones he pushed the most in the election. That change has hurt plenty of Americans, despite the job market's improvement.
Trump has tried to claim credit for several hundred goods-producing jobs here and there (credit that he doesn't always deserve, as the Washington Post's Philip Bump has reported), but bringing manufacturing employment back in a sizable way seems like a tall order for any president. Furthermore, alternative work — like driving an Uber or Lyft — continues to grow quickly as a share of the economy. That change could eventually require policy attention, as more workers take jobs that don't come with benefits.
But there's another big caveat here. Presidents get lots of credit and blame for the economy's performance, despite the fact that they don't really have firm control over that performance. (If they did, why would recessions ever happen?)
Yes, a president can push an economic agenda and in some cases push particular policies that end up having a sizable impact on the economy (see: the 2009 stimulus package, which undeniably had a positive impact).
You can't come up with anything that Obama did policy wise to create jobs...can you, Seawytch? Was that the best you could find? That's a testament to how pathetic Barry's performance WAS on job creation!
The stimulus had an undeniable positive impact. We stopped hemorrhaging jobs.
Two Charts Show Trump's Job Gains Are Just A Continuation From Obama's Presidency
Unemployment rate has been dropping for 9 years
The unemployment rate shows pretty much the same progression from President Obama to President Trump . The unemployment rate started to climb the last two years of President Bush’s second term and substantially in Obama’s first year as the Great Recession that he had inherited was having a huge impact.
Bush’s last four years in office:
Obama’s time in office
- December 2005: 4.9%
- December 2006: 4.4%, decreased 0.5%
- December 2007: 5.0%, increased 0.6%
- December 2008: 7.3%, increased 2.3%
Trump’s through September:
- December 2009: 9.9%, increased 2.6%(teeth of the recession)
- December 2010: 9.3%, decreased 0.6%
- December 2011: 8.5%, decreased 0.8%
- December 2012: 7.9%, decreased 0.6%
- December 2013: 6.7%, decreased 1.2%
- December 2014: 5.6%, decreased 1.1%
- December 2015: 5.0%, decreased 0.6%
- December 2016: 4.7%, decreased 0.3%
Its really simple, Trump has continued the good economy he was handed by Barack Obama but you treat him like he turned water into wine. That is the epitome of a sycophant.
- December 2017: 4.1%, decreased 0.6%
- September 2018: 3.7%, decreased 0.4%
You keep posting the same thing and pretending that you've answered my question. You haven't.
Were jobs created while Barack Obama was President? They were. Without question. Things like the energy boom created tens of thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately for your argument that wasn't something that was accomplished by Barack Obama...it was something that happened despite his policies! Barack Obama actively resisted fracking advances. Production of oil and natural gas on lands controlled by the Federal Government decreased while he was President. Production of oil and natural gas on lands that he didn't control was up dramatically.
So again...WHAT OBAMA ECONOMIC POLICIES CREATED JOBS? My point all along is that the good economy that you keep crediting to Barry happened not because of Obama policies but despite them. He was pushing for Cap & Trade legislation as his next big policy initiative before the Democrats were crushed in the first mid term elections...something that would have been a jobs KILLER at a time when millions of Americans had been out of work for years! The new GOP Congress stopped Cap & Trade. The GOP Congress saved the US economy from another Obama economic blunder!