More about the “accomplishments” under Obama: Rebuttal to letter from Sheila Nicholas of Dec. 31. Here are some “facts” that come not from me, not from Fox News or even CNN, but from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Ms. Nicholas states that we have had 56 straight months of private sector job growth, with the unemployment rate falling from 10.1 percent to 5.9 percent. Sounds good, but 1.5 million fewer U.S.-born workers were employed in 2014 than prior to the recession in 2007.