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Shows Clear Decline in Labor Force Participation Under President
Obama  Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows an unmistakable
decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate under President
Obama.  The rate dropped from 65.7% in January 2009 to 63.6% in
September 2012.  The chart below depicts the decline during
President Obama’s time in office, and it demonstrates that the
job situation became worse under his leadership.  Labor Force
Participation rate under President Obama. SOURCE: data.bls.gov
Labor Force Participation Rate Bush Through Obama. SOURCE:
data.bls.gov  The area depicted in red on the left is the Labor
Force Participation Rate during President Bush’s term in
office.  It shows a slow decline in the rate, starting at a high
of 67.2% in January of 2001, down to 65.7% when he handed the
economy over to President Obama in 2009, for an overall decline
of 1.5% over 8 years.  But what the graph shows is more
important than the start and end