re: Population increases don't immediately translate into worker increases
That's an interesting source of data. I wonder if the Labor Force statistics come from the employment survey or the household survey. It really doesn't say. The drop in reported employment from Nov to Dec 2003 suggests the data comes from the employment survey. If so, then that goes back to my original post on this thread which shows that the actual number of jobs seems to be higher (and growing) than reported on this source.