What Is Obama’s Actual Record on Creating Jobs?

• Overall, job creation has been relatively meager during the Obama administration, particularly compared to the massive job losses brought on by the recession [1]. According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, even if job creation were happening at pre-recession levels, it would take us 11 years to get back to an unemployment rate of 5 percent [3]
• Mitt Romney, Job Killer

Braden Goyette, ProPublica

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President Barack Obama speaks about the American Jobs Act at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas, on Oct. 4, 2011. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

The U.S. economy has been staggering for months and is still millions of jobs away [1] from recovering from the nearly 9 million jobs lost since the start of the recession. Indeed, the official unemployment rate has hovered around 9 percent or 10 percent [2] for more than two years.

President Obama has promised to focus on jobs, so we decided to look at his actual record: What exactly has the Obama administration done to create jobs so far? Here's a look at Obama's jobs initiatives, the hits, the misses, and the ones we're still waiting for an answer on.

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