Obama's Numbers (January 2. Update)Summary. Since President Barack Obama first took office: Homicides have dropped 1. The economy has added more than 9 million jobs, and the jobless rate has dropped to below the historical median. The number of long- term unemployed Americans has dropped by 6. Obama, but it is still 7. Great Recession. Corporate profits are up 1. There are 1. 5 million fewer people who lack health insurance. Wind and solar power have nearly tripled, and now account for more than 5 percent of U. S. We leave it to our readers to judge how much credit or blame the president deserves for what has happened on his watch, and we caution that no single number or collection of numbers can tell the entire story. What we offer here are some key yardsticks from sources we consider solid and reliable. Crime & Guns. Since recent mass shootings have dominated the headlines and the national political debate, we start with subjects we haven’t often explored in past updates: homicides and guns. Violent Crime— Homicides and other violent crime have decreased markedly since Obama took office. According to the FBI’s most recent annual compilation of crime reports published Dec. U. S. That’s a 1. The drop in all violent crime — including homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault — is even greater. There were 2. 29,0. U. S. In 2. 01. 4, the homicide rate was 4. News reports suggest that the homicide trend may have reversed last year, at least in several large cities where spikes in murder rates had been reported as of mid- 2. The national picture for the full year will have to wait until the FBI’s next annual release of comprehensive statistics, however. Guns — Although Obama campaigned on a promise to reimpose the expired “assault weapons ban,” that has not been accomplished, and his tenure has actually been marked by a remarkable rise in the sale and ownership of firearms. In 2. 01. 5, the number of criminal background checks of potential gun buyers hit more than 1. National Shooting Sports Foundation’s adjusted figures. That was 5. 8 percent higher than in 2. The number hit a record of nearly 1. The NSSF figures are the closest approximation we have to current sales figures. The NSSF adjusts the FBI’s monthly statistics to remove background checks requested for concealed- carry permits, which are not related to sales. Elias Munk; Born: Elias Græsbøll Munk-Petersen (age 24) Alken, Denmark: Residence: Copenhagen. Gælden: Johnny (Ung) Vindmøllernes Sus: Kenni. SAS User Forum Denmark Copenhagen June 15 th 2017 Registration is open. Statistisk dataanalyse af EFI-gælden (Et Fælles Indrivelsessystem) SAS Institute. Obama’s Numbers (January 2016 Update) A statistical measure of the U.S.However, not all background checks are followed by a sale, and an unknown number of private sales take place without any requirement for a background check. The figures cover all kinds of firearms, including handguns, rifles and shotguns. Jobs & Unemployment. Number of Jobs — The economy has added 8. As of December, the number of total nonfarm jobs stands 9,2. Obama first took office. That compares with the nearly 2. Bill Clinton’s presidency, and the fewer than 1. President George W. Bush’s eight years, which were plagued by two recessions. Unemployment Rate — Meanwhile the unemployment rate went down again, to 5. It’s now 2. 8 percentage points lower than it was in January 2. Her handler det om brugeranmeldelser. Få rigtige købsoplevelser fra andre kunder. Læs, skriv og del anmeldelser på Trustpilot i dag. European, US, and Japanese National Debt Clock : Real Time Debt Clocks. Sagsøgeren bevarede den til de pantsatte aktier hørende stemmeret. Gælden forfaldt til betaling blandt andet, hvis A fratrådte som direktør i H2 Company BV. Great Depression. Historically, the jobless rate is significantly lower than it has been most of the time since 1. The historical median is 5. Long- term Unemployment — The number of long- term unemployed — those who have been looking for work for 2. The number went down to less than 2. December, which is 6. But it is still 7. December 2. 00. 7, at the start of the Great Recession. Labor Participation Rate — The labor force participation rate, which is the portion of the civilian population that is either employed or currently looking for work, ticked upward since our last report, to 6. December. But it is still 3. Obama took office. Contrary to many of Obama’s critics, however, that decline is due mostly to factors outside the control of any president — factors such as the post- World War II baby boomers reaching retirement age. Survey data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in December show that those outside the labor force in 2. Only 3 percent said they couldn’t find a job, or gave some other reason. Job Openings — The number of job openings has declined only slightly since our last report, when it had peaked at the highest level in the 1. Bureau of Labor Statistics has been tracking it. The latest figures from the BLS show there were 5,4. November, down 4 percent from the revised peak figure recorded in July, but still up 9. Obama took office. The number of job openings now has exceeded 5 million for 1. January 2. 00. 1. Profits & Markets. Corporate Profits — Corporate profits have soared under Obama. After- tax profits were running at an annual rate of just under $1. July- October quarter of last year, the most recent figures available. That’s down somewhat from the previous quarter — which was a record. But still 1. 66 percent higher than in the quarter just before Obama entered office. That quarter’s profits were unusually low, ravaged by the Great Recession. But even compared with the best quarter prior to his taking office, which was the third quarter of 2. Stock Markets – Stock prices have declined sharply since our last report. The first week of 2. But despite recent losses, stockholders have done quite well under Obama. The Standard & Poor’s 5. Jan. 1. 1 than it was the day Obama took office. Other stock indexes show similarly robust gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has also more than doubled, rising 1. Obama’s tenure, and the NASDAQ Composite index has tripled, rising 2. Prices & Wages. Consumer Prices – Overall inflation in consumer prices has remained moderate over Obama’s more than six- and- a- half years in office, rising by only 1. January 2. 00. 9 and November, the most recent month for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the Consumer Price Index. The average yearly rise under Obama of 1. World War II average, according to BLS figures. Between 1. 94. 6 and 2. CPI was 4 percent, measured from December to December. In the most recent 1. CPI has gone up only a little more than 0. Gasoline – The national average price of regular gasoline sank to just under $2 a gallon last week ($1. U. S. Energy Information Administration. That’s a 3. 2- cent drop since our last report, and the lowest point since March 2. The most recent average is only 8 percent above the abnormally low point at which it stood on Inauguration Day 2. Real Weekly Earnings – The recent low inflation has helped the buying power of weekly paychecks. The BLS measure of average weekly earnings for all workers, adjusted for inflation and seasonal factors, is 3. November than it was when Obama first took office.(Note: This figure may be revised slightly in our next report. The BLS is currently recalculating figures for January 2. For this report we are still using as our starting point the figure that BLS originally published. The revised figure won’t be available until Feb. Food Stamps. The number of people receiving food stamps dropped again since our last report, by nearly 1. As of October, the most recent month on record, nearly 4. Americans were still receiving the food aid, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. That’s 5. 1 percent lower than the record level set in December 2. Obama took office in 2. But as we noted when Republicans called Obama the “Food Stamp President,” 1. George W. Bush’s time in office. By comparison, the net gain under Obama now stands at just under 1. Health Insurance. The number of people lacking health insurance continued to decline since our last report, according to the most recent data from the National Health Interview Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During the first six months of 2. CDC reported in its most recent quarterly report. That’s down from 4. Table 1. 1a), a drop of 1. Obama first took office. As a percentage of all U. S. But that gain may be illusory — due to normal seasonal variations. And it is still 3. Obama first took office. Using seasonally adjusted figures, the rate was unchanged from the previous quarter, and still the lowest since Census began issuing such figures in 1. The unadjusted rate peaked at 6. Most of the decline has taken place since Obama first took office. Energy. U. S. Crude Oil Production – Despite recent declines, U. S. Under Obama, as of the fourth quarter of 2. And in the first 1. U. S. That’s the lowest annual level of dependency on imports since before the first Arab oil embargo of 1. The U. S. The decline in dependency on imports actually began in 2. But the trend has continued under Obama. Wind & Solar – Electricity generated by large- scale wind and solar power in the most recent 1. October) was 2. 73 percent higher than the total for 2. The increase in solar power in particular has been spectacular. However, wind and solar still accounted for only 5. That actually understates the change to some degree. We have used only the EIA’s figures for “utility scale” electric generation. But in 2. 01. 4, EIA also began tracking small- scale (under 1 megawatt) “distributed” solar voltaic generation, such as the power produced by rooftop systems installed by homeowners. Wind and solar now account for 5. Federal Debt, Deficits and Spending. Debt – The U. S. It is now more than $1. Obama first took office. And the debt also has grown dramatically even when measured as a percentage of the growing economy, from 5. Congressional Budget Office. Spending– Federal spending, however, has increased much less. Total federal outlays in the fiscal year that ended Sept. U. S. That’s just 4. Obama took office. To be sure, Obama was responsible for some of the FY 2. Even attributing that extra FY 2. Obama brings the total increase in outlays since he took office to 1. Massive federal deficits continue: The final figure for FY 2. That was about $4. CBO projects that without further spending cuts or revenue increases, deficits will soon be growing larger again, and will top $1 trillion in FY 2. Total debt, counting money the government owes to itself, currently stands at nearly $1. Obama. Unfulfilled Promises.
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