timberlandko wrote:OK ... here ya go:
Unemployment for January of 1993 was 7.3%, having been 5.9% or above since September of 1990, though it had steadily declined from its 7.8% June 1992 high. Not untill September of 1994 did the unemployment rate fall below 6%, and it remained above 5% through June of 1997, never dipping below 5.6% through Clinton's entire first term. Falling to 3.8% in July of 2000, the index began drifting up, standing at 4.1% when Bush the Younger took office in January of 2001, reaching 5.8% by the end of 2001, 6.0% at the end of 2002, peaking at 6.4% in June of 2003 before declining to its present rate of 5.9%, falling a half point in 5 months. In Clinton's first term, unemployment was 5.5% or above for 46 out of 48 months, and for 6 months out of his second term ... 52 out of 60 months. It was 8 months before Clinton achieved a half-point reduction.
OK ... so ye110 asked whether "unemployment in terms of both actual number and percentage of the population is higher than it was under clinton". Let me filter from the data you just gave, what the straight answer to that would be.
Unemployment in 1993 (start of Clinton era) was 7,3%. By September 1994 it fell below 6%. It remained between 5-6% until 1997. Then it fell to 3,8% in 2000, and stood at 4,1% when Bush Jr took over.
Bush Jr. thus started at 4,1%, then unemployment rose to first, 5,8% end 2001, 6,0% end 2002 and 6,4% mid-2003. Its now fallen to 5,9%.
So the unemployment rate of the past two years has been higher than in the Clinton years 1997-2000, but similar to the Clinton years 1994-1996.
I thought it was unemployment numbers...hehe 
