an employment rate of 91.6% is pretty good considering manufacturing is in long-term decline and 1-in-5 walk out of school with only a basic understanding of English and Math [sic].

And on the 20% unemployment - if people are not looking for work they are not unemployed - they need to get an education and return to training. And unemployment does not count as a whole person unemployed either. Even with this you're still inflating a 15.x% to 20% with no evidence than your say so. No its not enough peer assessed evidence.

@John Cheese - Obama will win in 2012, and the GOP are already planning ahead for 2016 instead. Think the 1996 election.

Maybe, just maybe, it was a mistake?

I think the proof would be, how many times was the graphic used, and this is not mentioned in the article above.

If it was used all day long in several different shows then that's questionable, at best, but if it was only shown once, on one show, is it not just possible that this might have been a mistake?

If there was a fall in unemployment, it wasn't due to Obama, its probably because of leading job creation states such as Texas.

Fox viewership for the evening shows beats CNN & MesSNBC two to one, or better. C Amapoor's anchor show has failed. People see the slant. There is some bias in all shows, all reporters. Get over it.

The western capitalist press used to quote these sort of total misrepresentations of the truth when attacking the Soviet Union. Strange how we have moved on in the west.

at the risk of sounding so vile as to defend fox, what the chart and the unemployment rate fail to show is that the labor participation rate has plummeted as well. shrink the denominator and the relationship betwixt it and the numerator improves markedly

@adey: BLS's U-3 is currently at 8.6% but U-6 is still above 15 [15.6%]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

but since BLS is notorious for under-reporting [including their infamous black-box 'birth-death adjustment'], and since both of these numbers neglect the numbers of people who have left the work force [i.e., they gave up looking for work] then we can rest assured that real unemployment is easily above 18% and, likely, exceeds 20%.

is that sufficiently sourced and reviewed for you?

cheers

@John Cheese: You'll be publishing peer reviewed data to support you completely made-up statistic? I'll look forward to that.