Yup Harley hit the nail on the head. The fact is that there are almost a million less jobs for working people now than when Bush took office. The unemployment number changes when people who have been looking for work unsuccessfully for a long time drop off the roles. This means there are a lot of hidden unemployed and a lot of underemployed out there.
Job growth has been nonexistent. The economy has to create somewhere around 250,000 jobs per month just to stay even with increased population. I think the most it has done is around 350.000 and that only one month or so.