Actually that is a jobs graph (jobs added for each month, but only shows through 2015), and actually we've added jobs for 74 straight months, which is a record.
Here's another type of jobs graph which shows the massive improvement during Obama's presidency-- total nonfarm employment:
http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=CE_cesbref1
The amount of jobs added do not make up for the amount of people joining the work force or those who still can't work because they are not labor contracted. Plus, the amount of public employment is detrimental to the overall economy because they don't produce. They are a negative gain on the economy. Again, 38,000 jobs added is nothing to be proud of and falks way short of, again, any expectation. That is why economists are calling it sad.
"When President Obama took office in January 2009, 80,529,000 Americans were not participating in the labor force; since then, 14,179,000 Americans have left the workforce -- some of them retiring and some just quitting because they find work."
