11.3 million new jobs were created in the United States of America under President Barrack Obama.

In a letter to the American people earlier in the week Obama wrote: “Businesses that were bleeding jobs unleashed the longest streak of job creation on record”

The US economy has added jobs for 75 straight months, although his overall jobs gains aren’t as strong as some prior presidents.

The U.S. added 15.9 million jobs under former President Ronald Reagan and a whopping 22.9 million under former President Bill Clinton if you look at how many Americans were employed in the last full month they were in office versus the January when they were sworn in.

But President Obama did outshine former President George Bush who is in the back of the pack among recent presidents who served two terms. Only 2.1 million jobs were added during Bush’s full tenure.

Obama’s supporters note that he faced a severe challenge that other presidents did not, having assumed office in January 2009 – in the depths of the Great Recession – when the U.S. was bleeding nearly 800,000 jobs a month.

It was the worst economic hole America had seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Obama himself called it a “moment of peril unlike any we’d seen in decades.”

Congress and President Obama acted swiftly with a stimulus package that spent big money on roads and other projects and also gave people tax cuts.

The goal was to get people back to work and it worked after some time.

Businesses finally started adding jobs by the end of 2010. Since then, the gains have accelerated: 2014 and 2015 turned out to be the best years for jobs gains since the late 1990s.

The unemployment rate peaked at 10% and is now back down to 4.7% – a level many consider normal for a healthy economy.

There is an ongoing debate about how “good” the jobs added were. Almost all of them were so-called service jobs. Some of those are high-paying like nursing and tech. Others are low-wage, like retail and restaurant jobs.

In the letter, President Obama noted that one of his biggest regrets is that he wasn’t able to do more to reduce inequality in America.

“We have to acknowledge the inequality that has come from an increasingly globalized economy while committing ourselves to making it work better for everyone, not just those at the top,” he said.