Worst. Jobs. President since the Great Depression.
Unemployment dropped down to 7.7% in January.
After 130,000 Americans dropped out of the jobs market. (FOX News)

Via Drudge:
WHITES: 6.8%…
BLACKS: 13.8%…
HISPANICS: 9.6%…
TEENAGERS: 25.1%…

If you factor the underemployed with unemployed the unemployment rate is around 14%.
Yahoo reported:

U.S. employers ramped up hiring in February, adding 236,000 jobs and pushing the unemployment rate down to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in January. Stronger hiring shows businesses are confident about the economy, despite higher taxes and government spending cuts.

The government’s February employment report released Friday was filled with mostly encouraging details. The unemployment rate is now at its lowest level in four years. Hiring has averaged more than 200,000 per month since November. Wages increased. And the job gains were broad-based, led by the best construction hiring in six years.

One negative detail: Employers added fewer jobs in January than first estimated. Job gains were lowered to 119,000 from an initially reported 157,000. Still, December hiring was a little better than first thought, with 219,000 jobs added instead of 196,000.

The unemployment rate had been stuck at 7.8 percent or above since September. About half the decline in February occurred because more of the unemployed found jobs. A decline in the number of people looking for work accounted for the other half. People who aren’t looking for jobs aren’t counted as unemployed.

The economic recovery under Barack Obama is the worst in US history.


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03/...ve-jobs-market/

Changes released in the mid 1990's included moving the 'discouraged' out of the civilian labor force. This along with 'seasonal adjustment' and the 'birth and death model have proved very helpful in hiding real unemployment from BLS statistics:

The blue line represents unemployment if you count all those in the labor force who are unemployed and working part time but need full time plus those not in the civilian labor force who want work:


Household Data
Table A-1
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm

47,000 fewer people were working [table A-1, non seasonally adjusted numbers]
130,000 fewer people were working [table A-1] seasonally adjusted numbers

yet
Payroll Data
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm
236,000 jobs were added after manipulation by the 'Birth and Death model' and seasonal adjustment.

Voila !
The unemployment rate dropped !