Several speakers credited Barack Obama with an improved jobs picture . The 4.5 million figure is based on private-sector jobs added since 2010 . But the White House has said that number includes government jobs, which are not counted in official figures because they don't exist as separate entities from private employers and therefore aren't included in the government's tally of
Several speakers credited Barack Obama with an improved jobs picture . The 4.5 million figure is based on private-sector jobs added since 2010 . But the U.S. economy is still down 400,000 jobs over Obama 's tenure .