Government has no business trying to manipulate private business. The Obama administration has not created close to the number of jobs they state. For example they included all of the Census jobs which were short term and are now gone. The unemployment rates in the US vary by state but on average its closer to 10%. That is up about 5% from when Obama took office. These are facts just open any paper.
Do some research on Israel. The have more entrepreneurs per capital than any other nation other the US. Their GDP is a fraction of what the US they have very few government employees why? There is something there, most major companies, Intel, Microsoft, Intuit, etc. base major parts of their businesses in Israel. The US needs to stop thinking we know everything and look at countries like Israel and finally learn that government does not create jobs. Private companies, entrepreneurs create jobs, get government out of the way.
I realize you said "number of entrepreneurs", but since you didn't provide any links to
your research, I took your advice and did a bit of my own.
Israel ranks first on the list of US Foreign Aid.
Israel ranks 21st on the
Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI) Rankings. That link is provided by the US Small Business Administration and The Heritage Foundation btw.
The USA is ranked third overall behind Denmark and Canada. It has fallen in the rankings over the last 10 years particularly on the GEDI's Entrepreneurial Activity Sub-Index. USA is now ranked 8th behind Denmark, Canada, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden of that sub-index. All (Puerto Rico isn't a country... yet) governed by horrible high tax, socialist entities who have set out to create jobs (good ones) through intelligent government policy. Government is totally "in the way" and in fact showing the way in Denmark and Canada.
The problem in the US is that there is such a gridlock in society between the centre and the right (real lefties being just a blip on the radar), that the only mutually acceptable solution to any social problem such as unemployment, is to throw money at it willy nilly. Instead of using their brains and creatively solving a problem, representatives are scared shitless of losing their jobs in the next election and so deep into the pockets of special interest groups.