Which President Wins And Which Loses in the Year-over-Year Employment?

Which President Wins And Which Loses in the Year-over-Year Employment?

The top-line month-over-month employment figure came in at +211K, a healthy figures, although a drop from the upwardly-revised October figure of +298K.

In looking at the year as a whole, 2015 has been fairly good, with 2.107 million jobs created since January. That’s certainly not the tops, like the mid-90s or 2014 or 2005. But, it’s still quite good by recent experience basis (as evidence in the coming table).

The king of all employment years occurred in 1994 at 3.304 million through November.

With the employment report now know, here are five musings on the U.S. employment situation.

First, a political question. Which U.S. president saw the best year-over-year employment growth...