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January 1953 – Eisenhower takes office – U3 is 2.9%
January 1961 – Kennedy takes office – U3 is 6.6%, During Eisenhower U3 is up 3.7%
November 1963 – Johnson takes office – U3 is 5.7%, During Kennedy U3 is down .9%
January 1969 – Nixon takes office – U3 is 3.4%, During Johnson U3 is down 1.3%
August 1974 – Ford takes office – US is 5.5%, During Nixon U3 is up 2.1%
January 1977 – Carter takes office - U3 is at 7.5%, During Ford U3 is up 2%
January 1981 – Reagan takes office – U3 is 7.5%, During Carter U3 is flat, no change%
January 1989 – Bush I takes office - U3 is 5.4%, During Reagan U3 is down 1.9%
January 1993 – Clinton takes office - U3 is 7.3%, During Bush I U3 is up 1.9%
January 1994 – 1st month of U6 – U3 is 6.6% and U6 is 11.8%
January 2001 – Bush II takes office – U3 is 4.2% and U6 is 7.3%, During Clinton’s term U3 is down 3.1% and U6 is down 4.5% from 1994
January 2009 – Obama takes office – U3 is 7.9% and U6 is 14.2%, During Bush II’s term U3 is up 3.7% and U6 is up 7.1%
U3 and u6 peak in Oct 2009 at 10% and 17.1%
Current U3 is 7.6% and U6 is 14.3%
During Obama’s term so far U3 is down .3% and U6 is up .1%, figured from the peak of the recession which happed with 9 month of his taking office Obama’s U3 is down 2.4% and U6 is down 2.8%
Over the last 60+ years:
Republicans held the Oval Office for 36 years and U3 was up during their terms 11.5%
Only one Republican president ended his term with a lower U3 then when he entered office, Reagan. The other five all saw unemployment rise
Democrats held the Oval Office for 25+ years and U3 was down during their terms 5.6%
No Democrat had higher unemployment at the end of his term then when he started, none. Carter was even and the other four all improved. Yes, even Obama. Not just counting from the peak of Bush’s recession but from when he took office.
Since 1994 when U6 started to be tracked Republicans held office for 8 years in which U6 went up 7.1%, Democrats held office for 12+ years since then and U6 has been down 4.4%
And the Democratic numbers would be even better if the economy wasn’t in such a shambles when Obama took over.