As many jobs created as those who left work force under Obama

14,770,000 net new jobs were created since January 2009 when Obama first took office — and according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, most of those went to foreign-born workers: Foreign born workers / Native born workers — And the U.S. has 13,862,000 more working age Americans not in the labor force since January 2009 since Obama first took office.

For the sake of argument (to give the Obama administration the best benefit of the doubt), we'll assume that all 8.7 million people who lost jobs during the Great Recession have either went on disability, retired on Social Security, were incarcerated (criminally or medically), passed away, left the country or found another job — and not a single one is officially counted as "unemployed" today (as of September 2016).

Since Obama first took office in 2009, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, the U.S. has averaged over 3 million high school graduates every year during his tenure (24 million total during Obama's time in office) — and many, probably most, have went on to college for a certain amount of time and then either dropped out or graduated from college (and we can assume that most of them have attempted to enter the job market).

Net new jobs created under Obama per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (in thousands)

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Net Jobs Created
2009	-791	-703	-823	-686	-351	-470	-329	-212	-219	-200	-7	-279	-5,070,000
2010	28	-69	163	243	522	-133	-70	-34	-52	257	123	88	1,066,000
2011	42	188	225	346	73	235	70	107	246	202	146	207	2,087,000
2012	338	257	239	75	115	87	143	190	181	132	149	243	2,149,000
2013	190	311	135	192	218	146	140	269	185	189	291	45	2,311,000
2014	187	168	272	310	213	306	232	218	286	200	331	292	3,015,000
2015	221	265	84	251	273	228	277	150	149	295	280	271	2,744,000
2016	168	233	186	144	24	271	275-p	151-p	-	-	-	-	1,398,000
Total to Date													14,770,000

 24 million graduates during Obama's tenure
-15 million jobs created during Obama's tenure
- 9 million jobs short (minus those who have either went on disability, left the country, was incarcerated (criminally or medically), passed away or left the country — and we have almost 14 million more working age Americans "not in the labor force" during Obama's tenure.

On her website, Hillary Clinton claims she can create 10.4 million jobs "in her first term alone". With 3 million graduates a year, will that be enough? How many of those jobs will go to foreign-born workers and those on guestworker visas? How many will be part-time or low-paying jobs at McDonalds and Wal-Mart?

Americans not in the labor force during Obama's tenure per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (in thousands)

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2009	80529	80374	80953	80762	80705	80938	81367	81780	82495	82766	82865	83813
2010	83349	83304	83206	82707	83409	84075	84199	84014	84347	84895	84590	85240
2011	85441	85637	85623	85603	85834	86144	86383	86111	85940	86308	86312	86589
2012	87918	87740	87837	88227	88106	88071	88411	88812	88605	88443	88818	88753
2013	88997	89514	89961	89810	89880	89799	90094	90391	90419	91686	91215	91663
2014	91630	91526	91071	92063	92111	92130	91934	92149	92317	92294	92402	92885
2015	92699	93022	93190	93234	93089	93679	93761	94035	94458	94446	94380	94103
2016	94062	93668	93482	94044	94707	94517	94333	94391	-	-	-	-

We have almost 1 million more Americans "not in the labor force" (but want a job now) during Obama's tenure per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (in thousands).

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2008	4846	4739	4718	4733	4851	4929	5023	4922	5153	5094	5421	5431
2009	5708	5617	5807	5927	5986	5908	6003	5649	5949	6002	5998	6186
2010	5942	6098	5993	5913	5824	5909	5895	6037	6270	6289	6182	6431
2011	6472	6390	6527	6537	6289	6519	6513	6463	6262	6384	6538	6323
2012	6353	6337	6299	6388	6332	6559	6513	7010	6817	6552	6849	6727
2013	6647	6775	6666	6402	6676	6567	6517	6282	6136	6048	5724	6118
2014	6381	6018	6134	6175	6517	6162	6271	6380	6397	6499	6570	6407
2015	6333	6488	6310	6194	6047	6057	6104	5918	5944	6039	5637	5886
2016	5973	5870	5712	5793	5923	5692	5886	5833	-	-	-	-

The unemployment rate peaked at 10% in October 2009 but is reported by the Obama administration, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the media at 4.9% today.

Economic Populist (September 2016) "The labor participation rate is 62.8% ... Pre-recession, the January 2008 labor participate rate was 66.2% — a far cry from what we see today. Ignoring labor participation rates after 2008, one has to go to the late 1977 to find rates this low ... Below is a graph of those not in the labor force, (maroon, scale on the left), against the noninstitutional civilian population (blue, scale on the right). Notice how those not in the labor force crisscrosses the noninstitutional civilian population in growth.  The civilian noninstituitonal population is from where all other labor statistics have sprung, so to see strong acceleration in those not counted as participating in the labor force than the pool of population possible to be part of the labor force in the first place has been the bad sign of the last eight years."

*Full Disclosure: I didn't compare jobs created vs. those not in the labor force, or how many of the jobs that were created went to foreign-born workers, compared to previous administrations.