Increasingly I get the sense that people in DC think the economy totally sucked at the end of the Bush presidency and that's part of the reason Obama won. Sure there was the financial crisis, which was scary, and the stock market crash, which dented peoples' 401Ks, but people
still had jobs.
Unemployment rate:
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|
|---|
| 2008 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 6.9 | 7.4 | |
| 2009 | 7.7 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 9.4 | 9.7 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 10.0 | |
| 2010 | 9.7 | 9.7 | 9.7 | 9.9 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 9.6 | | | | | | | | |
