Barack Obama's Administration - by Numbers

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Haya kwa wale haters and pia fanatics wa Obama, here is for you to ponder over (am neither, so don't ask for "my take" on it).....

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Obama’s Numbers (January 2016 Update)

Summary

Since President Barack Obama first took office:

• Homicides have dropped 13 percent, but gun sales have surged.
• 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 614,000 under Obama, but it is still 761,000 higher than at the start of the Great Recession.
• Corporate profits are up 166 percent; real weekly wages are up 3.4 percent.
• There are 15 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. electricity.
• The federal debt has more than doubled — rising 116 percent — and big annual deficits have continued.

Those are just some of our findings in our latest installment of Obama’s Numbers.

Obama’s Numbers (January 2016 Update)