EXography: Employment keeps sagging in the Obama recovery

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When President Obama took office in 2009, the U.S. economy was in the midst of the Great Recession of 2008. Five and a half years later, that historic swoon remains his excuse for continued economic stagnation.

Whoever or whatever is to blame, neither his efforts nor luck nor a natural rebound have managed to restore America’s job market to what it was in better times.

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