U2Edge
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The monthly unemployment rate for September 2017 was 4.2%. This is the 9th unemployment report with Trump in office, his 9th month recorded for this list. This brings Trump's average unemployment rate for his term in office to date, down from 4.48% in August to 4.44% in September.
The President with the worst average unemployment rate since World War II is?
Gerald Ford: 7.77%
Average Unemployment Rates for US Presidents since after World War II:
01. Lyndon Johnson: 4.19%
02. Harry Truman: 4.26%
03. Donald Trump: 4.44%
04. Dwight Eisenhower: 4.89%
05. Richard Nixon: 5.00%
06. Bill Clinton: 5.20%
07. George W. Bush: 5.27%
08. John Kennedy: 5.98%
09. George H.W. Bush: 6.30%
10. Jimmy Carter: 6.54%
11. Barack Obama: 7.45%
12. Ronald Reagan: 7.54%
13. Gerald Ford: 7.77%
There are 39 months left in Trumps first Presidential term, assuming he completes it.
The labor force participation rate is at 63.1%, up from 62.9% in August.
Fact is Obama took the unemployment number down from 7.45 to 4%. Bush created the 7.45 number although I see you give him 5.27. Unemployment must have been really low when he first started and clearly you aren't giving Bush credit for all the people who lost their jobs because of him even after he left office. This list is a misleading joke.
All this is are the numbers from the bureau of labor statistics for the unemployment rate each month. Those numbers are then added up and then divided by the number of months in office to get the average. Raw data, facts. That's it. During Obama's time in office, his highest monthly umployment rate was 10% and his lowest was 4.6%. The average of all 96 months Obama was in office though, was 7.45%. So for the most part, on average while Obama was in the White House, the public had to contend with a 7.45% unemployment rate on average. While Bush was in office, the average that people had to contend with was 5.27%.
Its very early in Donald Trumps term, and a lot can still happen to change his numbers. I am NOT a Donald Trump supporter, by the way.