Here's the % changes

SOME WILL APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME WILL NOT. HOWEVER, ALL OF IT IS TRUE.

After three years of Obama ... 
 Here's your change!

 January 2009
 TODAY
 % chg
 Source

The above is the format for the following:
   
Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
 $1.83
 $3.86
 111%
 1
   
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
 $43..48
 $102..02
 129.7%
 2
   
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
 $38..74
 $91..38
 135.9%
 2
   
       
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
 $3.56
 $6.33
 78.1%
 2
   
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
 $9.66
 $13..75
 42.3%
 2
   
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb.Fob
 $13..37
 $35..39
 164.7%
 2
   
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
 7.6%
 8.3%
 9.2%
 3
   
Unemployment rate, blacks
 12.6%
 15.8%
 25.4%
 3
   
Number of unemployed
 11,616,000
 14,485,000
 24.7%
 3
   
Number of fed. Employees
 2,779,000
 2,840,000
 2.2%
 3
   
Real median household income
 $50,112
 $49,777
 -0.7%
 4
   
Number of food stamp recipients
 31,983,716
 43,200,878
 35.1%
 5
   
Number of unemployment benefit recipients
 7,526,598
 9,193,838
 22.2%
 6
   
Number of long-term unemployed
 2,600,000
 6,400,000
 146.2%
 3
   
Poverty rate, individuals
 13.2%
 14.3%
 8.3%
 4
   
People in poverty in U.S.
 39,800,000
 43,600,000
 9.5%
 4
   
U.S. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings
 5
 9
 n/a
 10
   
Present Situation Index
 29.9
 23.5
 -21.4%
 11
   
Failed banks
 140
 164
 17.1%
 12
   
U.S. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate
 89.76
 82.03
 -8.6%
 2
   
U.S. Money supply, M1, in billions
 1,575.1
 1,865.7
 18.4%
 13
   
U.S. Money supply, M2, in billions
 8,310.9
 8,852.3
 6.5%
 13
   
National debt, in trillions
 $10..627
 $14..052
 32.2%
 14 
   
 Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history.
Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane.
27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH! Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor;
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC;
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury