We're Getting There....

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, which has tracked these numbers for decades, in the year between November 1, 2007 and October 31, 2008 (just prior to the last presidential election), the U.S. had a net jobs created number of -1,938,000. However, between November 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012, the U.S. has had a net jobs created number of +1,694,000. That latter time span is eleven months--it obviously does not yet include this October. We'll see what the October numbers are on November 2 or thereabouts. We lost a lot of jobs between autumn 2007 and autumn 2009, so we're not yet where we want to be...but we're getting there.  At least for now.