Unemployment Just Spiked Up To 4.7 Percent In December… That Means 95 Million Americans Are Not Working Emmanuel January 7, 2017 Politics While Obama works hard to look for lists of his accomplishments..it's really more difficult than he thought. A lot of the things on this list have been disproven, leaving Obama with -0 accomplishments in the last 8 years. Despite the 156,000 jobs added to the United States economy in December,the amount of people in the workforce has rapidly decreased...we're talking almost 5%. But why?