Jobs, earnings, health insurance, oil production, exports and more. Our latest installment of the Obama scorecard.
Obama’s Numbers (April 2015 Update)
Issues: food stamps
Obama’s Numbers (January 2015 Update)
More jobs, higher paychecks, falling fuel prices: Our latest scorecard.
Obama’s Numbers October 2014 Update
Income, Poverty, Spending and Obamacare: Our regular update of the statistical record.
Hijacking History in Arkansas
In a new TV ad, Rep. Tom Cotton tries to rewrite history with the claim that President Obama “hijacked the farm bill, turned it into a food stamp bill.” Food stamp funding has been part of farm bills going back to 1973.
Obama’s Numbers (July 2014 Update)
Jobs, Profits, Guns & Health Insurance: Our Regular Update of the Statistical Record
Obama’s Numbers (April 2014 Update)
Our statistical indicators include record corporate profits and millions flocking to Obamacare, along with stagnant wages and a doubled debt.
Obama’s Numbers (January 2014 Update)
Latest statistics show stagnant wages, persistent long-term joblessness, soaring profits and stock prices, and moderating health care spending.
Obama’s Numbers: July Update
This is another in our series of regular quarterly updates of key statistical indicators of the Obama presidency. Our intent is to provide accurate measures of what’s changed — for better or worse — since Obama first took office in January 2009.
Food-Aid Foolery
To learn a bit about how partisans create false political propaganda, take a few moments to study what’s behind this headline: “More People Getting Government Food than Actually Working.”
Bachmann Bungles Benghazi, Food Stamps
Rep. Michele Bachmann used misleading and at times wildly inaccurate portrayals of two key domestic and foreign policy issues — food stamps and the response to an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya — to paint President Obama as someone who doesn’t “care.”
Her account of the White House response to the Benghazi attack included unsubstantiated claims, distortions of omission and outright factual errors, including the bogus claim that Glen Doherty “defied orders” to help colleagues under attack.