9.7 Million Jobs over 52 Straight Months

President Obama and the First Lady on the fourth of July in Washington DC

The latest jobs report came out with some encouraging trends:

• 1.4 million jobs were added in the first half of this year -- the most in any first half since 1999
• Private employment has increased for 52 consecutive months -- the longest streak on record
• The unemployment rate has fallen 1.4 percentage points over the past year -- the sharpest year-over-year decline in nearly three decades
• June marked the fifth straight month that the U.S. has added more than 200,000 jobs



Read more:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/07/03/employment-situation-june?utm_source