• The Obama jobs recovery continued to lag even longer than the recovery from the Great Depression.
• The slow jobs recovery meant that, at the current pace, the “jobs gap” won’t close until after 2025.
• New workforce dropouts during the Obama Administration outnumbered new employees by a staggering 237 to 1.
• Full-time employment remained depressed, while the number receiving government benefits soared.
• Three years after the recession officially ended, employment among men in their prime working years remained over four million below pre-recession levels.
• Small business (which is the largest engine of job growth) confidence remained near all-time lows.
• Contractions in manufacturing continued to be a “headache” for the U.S. economy.

• The unemployment rate remained nearly 50% higher than the Administration predicted under its “stimulus” policies.
• The “real” unemployment rate – including people who dropped out of or never joined the workforce – continued to hover around 11%.
• The number of working-age people not in the labor force swelled by over four million in recent years.
• The rise in unemployment and debt during the Obama Administration, called the Obama Misery Index, swelled past 80% for the first time.

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