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Currently 132,017,000 payroll jobs.
Number of payroll jobs when Bush took office in January 2001: 132,388,000. 371,000 jobs more than now.
Previous all-time employment high, March 2001, 132,507,000. 490,000 jobs more than now.
Number of jobs added since the end of December, 2003: 1,982,000.
Average number of jobs per month needed to be added in November and December to meet the "2.2 million jobs added this year" prediction that had milk coming out everyone's nose a while back: 109,000.
None of these numbers factor in the 236,000 upward correction mentioned last month, and that won't be added in until February.
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Household employment up 298,000.
Current household employment rate: 139,778,000.
Highest household employment rate prior to the Bush administration: 137,790,000 (January 2001).
337,000 new payroll jobs in October. 5.5 percent unemployment.
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- 337,000 new payroll jobs in October. 5.5 percent unemployment.
- Missed this...
- Wonder how this number might have affected the election? (n/t)
- Let me know when it adds up to the promised 6 million. (n/t)
- What is "household employment"?