# BLS prints 4.7 percent unemployment for December 2016 as Obama leaves office Date: 2017 ## The fact On 6 January 2017 the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation printed a 4.7 percent unemployment rate for December 2016, versus a 10.0 percent peak in October 2009. It is not a unique same-day miracle from ARRA or from the Fed. ## Context ARRA, auto restructuring, and Fed policy sat as parents. Neighbouring uninsured print is a neighbour. He did not sit as BLS or as FOMC. Participation-rate caveats remain on the file. ARRA 2009 is a parent. Auto 2009 is a parent industrial file. Sequester 2013 is a neighbour fiscal cost. A United States president proposes, signs, vetoes, and directs the executive. Congress enacts statutes. The Federal Reserve, states, courts, and later presidents share later series. Office-holding is not authorship of every later outcome. Allegation is not a completed judgment. Legislative achievements require shared congressional attribution. He does not set the federal funds rate, write a state Medicaid waiver by himself, or convert a 2009 oath into a unique 2016 uninsured coefficient. A signature is not unique authorship of a House and Senate text. A troop order is not authorship of every later round. He is not president as of 27 August 2026. [Donald Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) is president from 20 January 2025. [Joe Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) was president 2021–2025. ## Evidence and sources U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [labour-market tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness): a completed end-of-term unemployment print after the 2009 peak. ## What is established and what is not Established: 6 January 2017 BLS print of December 2016 unemployment at 4.7 percent, independently reported. Not established: that every job uniquely sat because of one statute, or a unique later 2025 coefficient from that Friday. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He owned 2009–16 fiscal and industrial weather. The Fed shares the recovery. Firms hire.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies BLS prints 4.7 percent unemployment for December 2016 as Obama leaves office, not a later speech about BLS prints 4.7 percent unemployment for December 2016 as Obama leaves office. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. BLS prints 4.7 percent unemployment for December 2016 as Obama leaves office on 2017-01-06 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average BLS prints 4.7 percent unemployment for December 2016 as Obama leaves office into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to BLS printed. He owned 2009–16 fiscal and industrial weather. The Fed shares the recovery. Firms hire. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Barack Obama: https://factrail.ai/people/barack-obama ## Drivers - Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness - Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-idUSKBN14Q0N3 - https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_01062017.htm ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-unemployment-2016