This is Not A Recovery

More than Two Years Later, Jobs Data Is Worse than Before Democrats’ Trillion Dollar February 2009 Stimulus

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Washington, July 8, 2011 | comments

 

 

Source: Department of Labor unemployment rate data and Obama Administration January 2009 projections (in “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act”) 

 


 

 February 2009

 June 2011

 Change

 Unemployment Rate

 8.2%

 9.2%

 +1.0%

 Unemployment

 12.7 million

 14.1 million

 +1.4 million

 Jobs

 132.8 million

 131.0 million

 -1.8 million

 Private Sector Jobs

 110.3 million

 109.0 million

 -1.3 million

 Labor Force

 154.4 million

 153.4 million

 -1.0 million

   
     
        

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics household and establishment surveys


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