It seems that there is considerable confusion with regard to the labor force and the labor force participation rate - the only remaining accurate measure for counting unemployment/employment.

The unemployment rates (all 6 of them) are politically skewed lies.

5 Million Jobs Destroyed Under Obama

The unemployment rate is a lie, actually, six of them.
A question: Why do we need 6 unemployment rates? (U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U6 unemployment).
Like when you ask a child who is lying a question and they come up with six different answers, they are hiding something.

The unemployment rate automatically and magically counts a person as employed after six months whether or not they found a job. Since unemployment is a two condition state, if you are not one; by default you are the other. So by not counting someone as unemployed anymore once their benefits run out, that means that they are automatically now counted as employed - a bald-faced lie.

So for the truth, we must look at the "Labor Force Participation Rate" and the size of the labor force - both statistics put out by the "Bureau of Labor Statistics".

Once you do that you will see that there are still over 4 million fewer jobs in America thanks to Obama, and just over 5 million fewer than we would have had he held the LFPR at the levels Bush did.

My calculation counts the number of jobs in America the day Obama won in 2008, and the same day in 2014. Simple.
Labor Force Size

My Calculations add up the size of the labor force, then simply multiply it by the percentage of those people who have jobs. Simple.

Millions of Jobs Destroyed By Obama

October 2008 Statistics (Obama Wins)

Total Labor Force Size: 154,876,000
Labor Force Participation Rate: 66%
Total Number of Jobs: 102,218,160
(Labor Force size multiplied by rate)

October 2014 Statistics

Total Labor Force: 156,278,000
Labor Force Participation Rate: 62.8%
Total Number of Jobs: 98,142,584

Summary

American Jobs in 2008: 102,218,000
American Jobs in 2014: 98,142,584
Number of jobs lost since 2008: 4,075,416

This calculation ignores the fact that the labor force actually increased in size over that time by some 1,400,000 people. If the Labor Force Participation Rate held the same as when Bush was President, 66% of them, or 925,320 of them would be working.
So in total, we are down just over 5 million jobs from where we would or should be.
Total Jobs Lost: 5,000,736 - according to data from the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

SOURCE:

These statistics are both available online from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not some partisan propaganda site. They require simple arithmetic, not something most lefties are capable of.

Civilian Labor Force (Size)
Labor Force Participation Rate
Simply multiply one by the other to see how many jobs there actually are.

Do the math (arithmetic) yourself and see. Post it on your blogs and wherever you can to get the truth out there. I'm sick of the lies being promulgated by the MSM and this lying administration.

I will post this until my fingers turn blue. Too bad the MSM won't report the truth. Don't just take my word for it, follow my links to the government's own pages (links above) and do the arithmetic yourself. Refer to the above in any debates on 'Unemployment'. Follow my links and see for yourself. Rub it in the face of your lefty friends/family who try to tell you that unemployment is down.

These numbers are accurae and come from the BLS.