claim: "there are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when (president barack) obama took office."
author: paul krugman
evidence_1: jul 11, 2016 ... there were still nearly 2 million long-term jobless in june. that's 720,000 fewer  than when the president first took office, but still 655,000 higher than in  december 2007, at the start of the great recession. the average length of  unemployment also remains far above pre-recession levels. on average, those ...
evidence_2: jan 18, 2017 ... obama, of course, became president in january 2009, when the global economy  was collapsing and hundreds of thousands of american workers were losing their  jobs each month. when you compare the number of jobs when obama took office  with the total now, the difference is a net gain of 11.3 million ...
evidence_3: jan 12, 2016 ... since president barack obama first took office: homicides ... there were 229,078  fewer violent crimes in the u.s. in 2014 than in 2008, a drop of 16 percent,  according to the fbi. ... the number went down to less than 2.1 million in  december, which is 614,000 fewer than when the president first took office.
evidence_4: jan 13, 2016 ... more than 14 million new jobs; the strongest two years of job growth since the  1990s; an unemployment rate cut in half." he's correct...if you look at the data in  the most favorable way possible for him. the united states has only added about  9.3 million jobs during his term -- from the time obama took office ...
evidence_5: oct 9, 2016 ... the rate is now 2.8 percentage points lower than it was in january 2009, when  the president first took office, and half what it was at the worst of the 2007-2009  recession, when the .... according to the fbi's most recent annual statistics, there  were 15,696 murders in 2015, which is 769 fewer than in 2008.