1. You are incorrect. If you’d clicked through to the chart’s source, linked from the (cropped) image itself and in the caption, you’d have seen the source: the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Which you reference in your next point, so I assume you do, in fact, know that the chart’s data is cited.

2. This chart doesn’t claim to list “the unemployed,” but rather lists job losses per month, which is something quite different. These are the same job-loss stats all major organizations use in the US, and because they deal only with *new* claims, the usual “doesn’t count people who give up looking” caveat doesn’t apply.

3. If you’re going to come to a blog about content strategy to kvetch about Obama, you’re already on the verge of trolldom; if you do it without getting your own facts straight, you’re wasting everyone’s time.

2.There is not an accurate method of determining the number of unemployed. Through the Department of Labor’s statistics you can only determine the number of people who are filing for unemployment, as opposed to the actual number of workers who are unemployed.