Employment is better due to the action of the government in the last five years.

Here are a couple of results from a panel of expert economists:

Source:  Thinkprogress.org

Source: IMG Forum

As you consider the problem of unemployment, realize that we are better off than we might have been, and the reason is the action that the government took. Obama deserves a lot of the credit for that action. He helped create a consensus during the last year of the Bush administration, and got the Congress to pass useful legislation before the new Congress took office in 2011.