Jobs

Employers cut 216,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate rose to 9.4%.

Obama inherited an economy that was losing over 700,000 jobs a month. That's been cut in half in 7 months. Things are getting better economically. But you can't fix 8 years of George Bush Republican rule in 8 months. Slowly but surely.

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