claim: under barack obama, the u.s. now has the "lowest workforce since (president jimmy) carter."
author: american future fund
evidence_1: nov 4, 2014 ... let's talk about labor-force participation. ... election—it has become a key talking point for critics of president barack obama's economic... ... the lowest since the us economic malaise under president jimmy carter in the late 1970s. .... but now let's look at the same data, but confine it to just people in their ...
evidence_2: jan 22, 2016 ... after the president talked up national job gains, a central texas ... under barack obama, "the fewest number of adults are working since jimmy carter's presidency. ... working since jimmy carter's presidency and the executive branch has ... that statistic is the civilian labor force participation rate -- meaning ...
evidence_3: jul 15, 2016 ... us economy ... for his part, president barack obama has vigorously defended his economic ... the start of a president's term to the end, beginning with jimmy carter's ... the biggest expansion of gdp came under clinton, who presided over ... the carter, reagan and first bush administration, the labor force ...
evidence_4: oct 28, 2015 ... ronald reagan, meanwhile, is the only gop president since dwight ... jimmy carter and lyndon b. johnson aren't very far behind bill clinton in terms ... such investments can help bolster labor force skills and worker productivity ... it exploded under bush [ii] and has remained relatively high under obama.
evidence_5: jan 18, 2017 ... as president barack obama prepares to leave the white house, we look ... the u.s. added 2.2 million jobs in 2016, on top of 2.7 million jobs ... has been below 6% and the workforce participation rate has ranged ... low as it's been lately since the jimmy carter-era economic malaise ..... subscribe now ...