November  UTC The  unemployment figure is the highest in  years Throughout his entire first year in office Obama has seen unemployment figures higher than they ever were under Bush His economic stimulus plan has done absolutely nothing to control the rising unemployment and he is seen as ineffective Pretending that it will or even might have no effect on historys perception of the man is disingenuous at best I was WPBOLD and added a brief phrase on the  unemployment figure sourced to The New York Times