Bush, Worst Job Record on Record - WSJ

[Toro]

The Bush administration created about three million jobs (net) over its eight years, a fraction of the 23 million jobs created under President Bill Clinton’s administration and only slightly better than President George H.W. Bush did in his four years in office.

Here’s a look at job creation under each president since the Labor Department started keeping payroll records in 1939. The counts are based on total payrolls between the start of the month the president took office (using the final payroll count for the end of the prior December) and his final December in office.

Because the size of the economy and labor force varies, we also calculate in percentage terms how much the total payroll count expanded under each president. The current President Bush, once taking account how long he’s been in office, shows the worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records.

Check out the interactive table.

Real Time Economics : Bush On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record

 

[SwingVoter]

what's missing is the % created in government, under Clinton it was just 8%, under W it's been over 50%

if you include the Jan 09 report as part of Bush's term, we're very likely to come in at fewer than 1 million private sector jobs in his 8 years

with his homeland security bureaucracy, no child left behind, medicare drug plan borrow-and-spend plans, Bush has proved yet again that Socialism doesn't work

 

[Red Dawn]

On the bright side, he was good for Halliburton.

And the health care industry, which has a life time of care to provide maimed and wounded iraq war vets

 

[alan1]

Didn't millions of illegal aliens get jobs in the last 8 years?
Were those jobs counted?