OBAMA'S Final Numbers - Fact Check.org

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Obama’s Final Numbers
Statistical indicators of President Obama's eight years in office.
By Brooks Jackson

Summary

The numbers are nearly all in now. What they show about what
really happened during the eight years that Barack Obama
was president is sometimes different from what
politicians claimed.


The economy gained a net 11.6 million jobs.

The unemployment rate dropped to below the historical norm.

Average weekly earnings for all workers were up 4.2 percent
after inflation. The gain was 3.7 percent for just production
and nonsupervisory employees.

After-tax corporate profits also set records, as did stock prices.

The S&P 500 index rose 166 percent.

The number of people lacking health insurance dropped by 15 million.
Premiums rose, but more slowly than before.

The federal debt owed to the public rose 128 percent.
Deficits were rising as Obama departed.

Home prices rose 20 percent. But the home ownership rate
hit the lowest point in half a century.

Illegal immigration declined: The Border Patrol caught 35 percent
fewer people trying to get into the U.S. from Mexico.

Wind and solar power increased 369 percent. Coal production
declined 38 percent. Carbon emissions from burning
fossil fuel dropped 11 percent.

Production of handguns rose 207 percent, to a record level.

The murder rate dropped to the lowest on record in 2014, then
rose and finished at the same rate as when Obama took office.


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[George Core]

BiologyMajor wrote

> FACTCHECK.ORG
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> ObamaÉ Ts Final Numbers

Those stupid facts won't stop rightwing pundits from blaming Obama for the
2008 recession, just like they blamed Clinton for 9/11. They got their own
history and soon it will probably be endorsed by the Texas School Boards as
legitimate Alternate Facts.