Obama’s First Term – By the
Numbers
Fox News – 1/21/2013
Obama's first term -- by the
numbers
As the president launches
into the next four years, the following is a look back -- by the numbers -- on
the first four.
Obama Stats:
Number of countries visited:
35
Number of recess
appointments: 32
Number of pardons: 22
Number of vetoes: 2
Addresses to the nation: 9
Addresses to Congress,
including State of the Union : 6
Current approval rating: 47
percent
Approval rating in January
2009: 65 percent
Major pieces of legislation:
American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (aka, the stimulus)
Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (aka, ObamaCare)
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal
Act of 2010
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
(made it easier to file an equal-pay lawsuit)
Budget Control Act of 2011
(ended the debt-ceiling crisis, enacted spending cuts)
American Taxpayer Relief Act
of 2012 (averted the fiscal crisis, extended tax rates for all but top earners)
National Debt
National debt when Obama
took office: $10.6 trillion
National debt today: More
than $16.4 trillion
Unemployment
Unemployment rate in
December 2008: 7.3 percent
Unemployment rate in
December 2012: 7.8 percent
People Without Health Insurance
Number of people without
health insurance in 2009: 50.7 million
Number of people without
health insurance in 2011: 48.6 million
Stock Market
The Dow on Jan. 20, 2009:
7,949.09
The Dow on Jan. 18, 2013:
13,649.70
Poverty
Number of people in poverty
in 2009: 43.6 million
Number of people in poverty
in 2011: 46.2 million
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