Don't let them lie to you. The facts are contrary to what the Republicans and even the popular media is reporting. Both Numerically and comparably the Job Growth Rate under Obama has been the greatest first four years recovery for any president since Ronald Reagan. And it hasn't cost us culturally nearly half as much was Reaganomics cost us.
This chart tracks job growth during the first 4 years of every president since Reagan.
Numerically Obama has created more jobs than any other President, but even the slope of his job growth has been greater than any other president since 1984. The job growth rate under Obama has been comparable to the job growth rate under Bill Clinton from 1992 through 1996. Remembered as one of the greatest periods of job growth in US History.
But some may ask "What about unemployment?"
Let's take a look at the numbers.
The amount of jobs lost during the great recession has no comparison with any of the job losses of any recession in history. Nonetheless the trend here is average. Far better than Bush II's first four year trend
which barely ever went below the lowest point during the recession. In fact his failure to bring down those numbers are one of the reasons why the number of people left jobless were so high in the following recession. The most comparable unemployment drop in fact is that of Clinton's first four years.
So don't let the GOP or the News Lie to you. Not only are we better off than we were 4 years ago but this has been one of the best recoveries from a recession in modern history.