"Democrats are the pro-unemployment party."
They aren't very good at it....
I used the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data to calculate how many seasonally-adjusted private sector jobs each president created in their term (beginning in February, since they normally take office in late January). There’s obviously a limit to how much one president can do to create jobs, but the numbers are still telling:
The totals are even worse: Democrats created 45 million jobs, while Republicans created only 23 million, and Republicans actually had more time in the White House. But what’s truly interesting about this data is that even if you take the highest numbers under Bush (in January 2008, before the recession) he still created only 3.9 million jobs. And remember he did that after coming into office with great economic indicators and a balanced budget. So much for supply-side economics. On the other hand, Obama, who was dealt far more strife, has focused more, although not entirely on the middle class — and so far, this nonsense about the “Obama economy” isn’t even close to true. If job growth keeps improving like it has over the past year (at about 2%), then by July of 2016, Obama would create more than 12 million jobs over his 8 years. Larry Bartels finds in his book, Unequal Democracy, that income growth is not only higher when a Democrat is in office, it’s also more equally distributed.
policymic.com
Study Shows More Manufacturing Jobs Created Under Democratic Presidents
By Annie-Rose Strasser  on October 15, 2012 at 2:15 pm
 Since World War Two, manufacturing jobs have grown under Democratic presidents and faced more challenges under Republicans, a new study reported on Monday.
Democratic presidents presided over estimated employment rise of 7 million in the manufacturing sector over the course of seven administrations; In nine administrations, Republicans saw a fall of manufacturing jobs by an estimated 9 million. The Keystone Research Center broke down those numbers by region:
Trends in four regions reflect long-term shifts of manufacturing away from the Northeast and the Midwest and towards the South and the West. Averaging results using the three estimation methods:
- In the Northeast, about 4 million manufacturing jobs were lost in Republican administrations and nearly 900,000 gained in Democratic.
- In the Midwest, about 3.2 million manufacturing jobs were lost in Republican administrations and about 2 million created in Democratic.
- In the South, about 925,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in Republican administrations and about 2.1 million manufacturing jobs created in Democratic.
- In the West, about 380,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in Republican administrations and about 1.55 million jobs created in Democratic.
thinkprogress.org
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