9.05.2011

A long, long way to go

10 Eye-Popping Labor Day Stats | Mother Jones

280,000: The number of jobs the American economy needs to add each month to fill its 11.3 million-job deficit by the middle of 2016.

35,000: The average number of jobs the economy actually added in the past three months.

0: The likelyhood anything is going to get done about this any time soon.

(That last is mine. Read all of Mother Jones's stats here.)

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