President Obama’s reelection campaign was based almost entirely on allegations that Mitt Romney was morally disqualified for office because he was “for the rich” while Obama was “for the little guy and his family.”  But since the first day of the Obama Administration it has been “the little guy” who needs employment, and his family, [...]

If you’ve heard a campaign speech by President Obama or Vice President Biden or you’ve heard their cheer leaders in the media, you’re familiar with the one employment statistic they bellow at every opportunity: Over the last thirty months we’ve created 4.6 million private sector jobs! They hope voters will think 4.6 million, the net [...]

The September Jobs report published Friday by the labor Department was a deep disappointment. Only 96,000 jobs created in August, a pathetically small number, about a third fewer jobs than the monthly increase in the working age population. President Obama and his supporters, hoping for a positive response from recession weary voters, rushed to the [...]

The latest jobs report was another disappointment.  In July:  Employers created 163,000 jobs in July, a welcome improvement over April, May and June, but still not nearly enough to both replace jobs lost in 2008 and 2009 and keep up with population growth.  The unemployment rate ticked up from 8.2% to 8.3%.  (Late in the [...]

Barack Obama’s bizarre comment regarding the most recent jobs report seems to indicate a profound disconnect from the grim reality Americans continue to suffer. The June Jobs Report published by the Labor Department Friday was, again, a deep disappointment. Private sector employers hired 84,000 employees and government cut 4,000 for a net 80,000 additional jobs.  [...]

How many government jobs would satisfy the President and the Democrats? President Obama kicked up a lot of dust when, in the course of answering a reporter’s question about the economy, he announced that “the private sector is doing fine.”  His media defenders assure us it was an unscripted slip and the Conservative reaction was [...]

Does President Obama understand fundamental economic principles? The President held a Press Conference Friday to discuss the state of the economy and job creation  and made a startling assertion: Reporter’s Question on the topic of jobs: What about the Republicans saying that you’re blaming the Europeans for the failures of your own policies? President Obama: [...]

The Labor Department has published its jobs report for May: Employers added a pathetic 69,000 jobs.  It takes at least 125,000 new jobs every month to keep up with the growth in the working age population, and employers still have not replaced the five million jobs that were lost in 2008 and 2009. The reports [...]

Suppose a man in his fifties loses his job and, after months of actively searching for new employment gives up looking for a while even though he still wants a job.  Is he “unemployed” or “retired?” As the chart shows, the labor force participation rate – the percentage of the working age population that is [...]

In a rational world a President would honor these people as economic heroes who do far more than their “fair share.” This week the Obama campaign transitions from gay marriage to placing blame for the looming government debt crisis on the only people who are doing anything to alleviate it.  He continues to insist that [...]