claim: "this is the first time since the depression that unemployment has stayed above 9 percent for two consecutive years."
author: john boehner
evidence_1: sep 14, 2012 ... in march 2011, it dropped to 8.9 percent, but rose back above 9 percent the  following six months. in october 2011, the rate fell back below 9 percent. each  month since, it has been in the 8 percent range. the last time the u.s.  unemployment rate topped the 8 percent mark was during the first term of ...
evidence_2: nov 7, 2017 ... progress erasing the jobs deficit was slow for some time, but the economy has  now recovered the 8.7 million jobs lost between the start of the recession in  december 2007 and early 2010 and continued to add jobs since. nonfarm  payroll employment was 6.2 percent (8.6 million) higher in october 2017 ...
evidence_3: this article examines the american inflation experience over the past hundred  years, as captured by the bureau of labor statistics consumer price index, and  the ... nonetheless, the upward trend in prices did not coincide with great  progress in alleviating the depression: unemployment averaged around 18  percent and ...
evidence_4: feb 6, 2016 ... the u.s. unemployment rate just fell below 5% for the first time since 2008.  normally, this ... "we should be proud of the progress we've made...we've  recovered from the worst economic crisis since the 1930s," obama said. ... about  2.1 million americans have been unable to get a job for over half a year.
evidence_5: in a may 9, 2008 report, the chief north american economist for investment bank  merrill lynch wrote that despite the gdp growth reported for the first quarter of  2008, "it is still reasonable to believe that the recession started some time  between september and january", on the grounds that the national bureau of  economic ...