Since Obama became president, the US unemployment rate has gone up at least as much as the other nine countries that the BLS provides comparable unemployment numbers for. Sweden has as big of an increase as we do up until the May to July 2010 period and the Netherlands ends up about as we do in the end. But our rate has consistently been the worse over the entire period.
These unemployment data are available here.
But the problem is that even these bad numbers for the US understate how bad things are because we have a lot more people just completely leaving the labor force. Only the Netherlands has as big of a drop in the percent of the population employed between 2009 and 2010 as we do, and no one has as big of a drop as we do between 2008 and 2010.
This data is available here.
These unemployment data are available here.
But the problem is that even these bad numbers for the US understate how bad things are because we have a lot more people just completely leaving the labor force. Only the Netherlands has as big of a drop in the percent of the population employed between 2009 and 2010 as we do, and no one has as big of a drop as we do between 2008 and 2010.
This data is available here.
Related Posts
Double dipping for government aid?: A case involving wind farmsAlex Tabarrok has this find here: government provides $1.2 billion of a $1.9 billion project.The memo says that OMB and- So much for all those shovel ready jobs: the case of high-speed trainsFrom the Washington Post:Critics began panning the first leg of California’s futuristic high-speed rail network as a “t
- Obama pushes new regulations to stop children working on family farmsYet, more bizarre regulations from the Obama administration.Under the proposed rules, according to the Wisconsin Farm B
- Laziness as problem for the US not attracting new business?Obama's solution of eliminating competition between the states to attract businesses will make it even harder to attrac
Newest Fox News piece: The truth about Obama's tax cut extension planMy newest piece starts this way:Politics, not economics, is driving President Obama's election year strategy to force a- Obama threatens to veto any attempt to reform regulatory processFrom the Politico:"President Obama today threatened to veto the “Regulatory Accountability Act” (H.R. 3010), a bill the
The US Unemployment rate is even worse than you think relative to other countries
4/
5
Oleh
abudzar
