Under GWB unemployment was 4% and now it's 28% under Obama.
I’m pretty sure UE was a little higher under Bush if you measure it the same way you do Obama’s. We’ve been measuring UE this way since the Johnson admin. So UE probably has always been higher than what we were officially told since the 60’s.
However, this economy is a stink hole compared to what we had under Bush. Unfortunately we were in the midst of a bubble back then but that’s another story. Bubble or no bubble it WAS growing well while we were being told it was the worst economy since Hoover.
I am a little confused on how they added this. Your figure seems more accurate but the 310 million doesn’t take into account children, retired and so on.