Personally, I prefer just subtracting "employed" from "population":
Too many folks are oblivious to the fact that "hope'n'change meant 14 million would lose their jobs and not get them back. There's more BLS records showing that another 3 million suddenly went from full to part time too, but of course all these figs are are from the BLS and census.gov and your take is they're all liars --wait a sec, where are you getting your laborforce participation numbers?
Your own favorite chart shows that job creation is lagging population growth.
I’m getting the labor force number from the BLS, of course. But there’s a huge difference between that number and the unemployment number, in that the labor force number is raw, unadjusted data, whereas unemployment is a witches’ brew of adjustments and manipulation and reclassification.
The labor force number represents 10 million jobs lost since Lehman that haven’t come back. You won’t see evidence of that in the politically manipulated unemployment rate.
BLS fraud in the unemployment number may have made the difference in Obama’s second election - and it’s not subjective that fraud occurred. Not sure why you are so intent on defending it.