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1. All,

   I did some fact checking over at bls.gov; in particular, the job growth
   numbers by decade starting with 1940. Here are the results:

   1940-1949 11.977 million jobs created
   1950-1959 10.659 million jobs created
   1960-1969 17.065 million jobs created
   1970-1979 19.429 million jobs created
   1980-1989 18.140 million jobs created
   1990-1999 21.723 million jobs created
   2000-2009 0.944 million jobs LOST.

   Job creation drove off a cliff in the 2000’s; the bls.gov site does not
   have numbers before 1939 so I can’t contrast the 1930’s with today. There
   is talk that we will be heading into another “Lost Decade” which would make
   for two lost decades, easily surpassing in length of time the Great
   Depression. Is that what we are heading for? Another Great Depression that
   does not have a troth as deep but lasts much longer?

   ChuckL

2. I happened upon your post and, being a skeptic, I checked the BLS site. Nice work!

   The 2009 data has been “corrected” since you did your post and the total for 2009 is now -2.752 M jobs. This means you last line is:

   2000-2009 1.044 million jobs created

   Still pretty depressing.

   Cheers,

   tas

3. Doug,

   Permission to distribute? With full attribution?

   Thanks,
   Tim

4. This should be at the start of every News cast

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