The Obama campaign, in a frenzy of spin, is trying to persuade us that recent employment statistics signal economic improvement for which we should thank President Obama by renewing for four more years his project to “transform America” by expanding the power and dominance of government in our lives.  At a campaign event following release [...]

They popoed  Champagne corks at Obama-2012 HQ and the media cheered.  The Labor Department jobs report for February does look better than the grim statistics the Obama Administration first three years.  Employers added 227,000 jobs in February.  The January report was revised upward to 284,000, adding up to best two months since President Obama was [...]

Political communication in America is largely an effort to influence the perceptions of those who pay little attention to politics by stripping complex concepts and issues down to easily understood  statistics and simplistic soundbites.  In each of his first 33 months in office President Obama suffered because the easily understood Unemployment Rate remained very high.   [...]

The Labor Department released its jobs report for October: Employers added 80,000 jobs, about 65% of the monthly growth in the working age population. The Unemployment rate remained tragically high, at 9.0%. If the 2011 job growth rate continues it will take until 2016 to replace the jobs lost in 2008 and 2009. The Obama [...]

The Labor Department released its jobs report for September: Employers added 103,000 jobs in September.  While this was an improvement over August it was less than the monthly growth in the working age population. The Unemployment rate remained unchanged at a tragically high 9.1%. If the 2011 job growth rate continues it will take five [...]

Earlier we reported that President Obama’s “American Jobs Act” estimated to cost $447 billion in 2012 would, in his words, be “fully paid for” not by actually paying for it with cuts in other spending in 2012, or even with tax increases in 2012.  No, Obama’s “pay for  it” means that over a period of [...]

The Chart compares the results of the Obama strategy of massive government borrowing, spending and intervention in the private sector with the results of the Reagan approach of deregulation, lower income tax rates and greater liberty. Employers added ZERO new jobs in August. The statistics for June and July were revised, showing 58,000 fewer jobs [...]

The Labor Department posted a grim jobs report for June, emphasizing America’s continuing economic misery. Employers added an anemic 18,000 jobs in June.  The May number was revised downward from 54,000 to 25,000 additional jobs. The unemployment rate ticked up to from 9.1% to 9.2% If the 2011 rate of job growth continues, it will [...]

The Labor Department published new small business statistics last week. Due to waves of new regulation, Expensive new employer mandates in ObamaCare, and continuous threats of tax increases on entrepreneurs and investors there are were fewer new businesses in 2010 than at any time since the government began counting them in 1993.  

If Private Sector Job creation had been Obama’s original goal the Reagan Administration experience provided the formula to achieve that goal. The Labor Department’s monthly jobs report for May showed private sector employers created 83,000 jobs in May.  Unfortunately, state and local governments cut 29,000 employees so the net job gain was only 54,000.  This [...]