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Mar 22, 2017 · According to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, in the current expansion period (covering the Obama presidency), the growth rate for GDP has averaged 2.1 percent annually when adjusted for inflation. This is the lowest growth rate among the 11 previous expansion periods.
Jun 25, 2019 · Obama loves to tout his administration's record 75 straight months of job growth – although he declined to drop the number Tuesday night – as well as the fall in the unemployment rate from...
Sep 29, 2017 · So slow that over all of Obama’s 96 months in office, the median jobless rate was 7.7 percent — the highest for any administration since the end of World War II.
Jan 6, 2017 · Historically, the U.S. economy has expanded 3% or more a year, on average. The Great Recession was a meat-cleaver on the economy. Since then, the U.S. has struggled to grow at much more than 2%...
Mar 22, 2024 · President Barack Obama had an average annual GDP growth rate of 2.3%. Obama ended the 2008 recession he inherited with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), an $831 billion...
Mar 6, 2017 · Doing so reveals economic growth has surpassed 3 percent during two periods of Obama’s presidency. We rate Roskam’s claim Mostly True.
Jun 1, 2012 · PolitiFact.com, the independent fact-checking operation of the Tampa Bay Times, has produced a scorecard — key economic measures to track where the economy stood a year before Obama took...
