Sunday, February 5, 2012

Job Creation Numbers

In the wake of one of our country's greatest recessions, this timeline, provided by Patrick Gaspard of the Democratic National Committee, illustrates the ebbs and flows of private sector job creation over the past several years.  In a time where unemployment runs rampant and provides political vitriol, this chart puts job creation into perspective and reveals a surprising truth: maybe things aren't as bad as they seem.

1 comment:

John Smith said...

http://gulzar05.blogspot.com/2012/02/real-american-unemployment-rate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Urbanomics+%28Urbanomics%29

*Real rate of unemployment is 10.3%