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Bozita

(26,955 posts)
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 01:21 PM Nov 2012

U-M survey: U.S. economy expected to regain nearly 9M jobs (over the next two years)

Source: Detroit News

November 15, 2012 at 11:45 am
U-M survey: U.S. economy expected to regain nearly 9M jobs
By The Detroit News


Ann Arbor — Over the next two years, the U.S. economy will regain the rest of the nearly 9 million jobs lost in the Great Recession, according to an annual forecast by University of Michigan economists.

Employment fell by 8.8 million jobs during the 2008-09 economic downturn, but the economy has recovered 4.5 million jobs in the last three years, according to the survey released Thursday morning. By the end of 2014, another 4.3 million jobs will be added as the economy grows at a moderate pace with steadily falling unemployment, the economists said.

U-M economist Joan Crary and colleagues Daniil Manaenkov and Matthew Hall predict the creation of 2 million jobs in 2013 and another 2.3 million in 2014 as unemployment falls from 7.9 percent to 7.2 percent during that time.



Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121115/BIZ/211150429#ixzz2CJS3FelF

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L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
1. These jobs are part of the 12 million jobs Mitwit promised. Clue ...they would be coming anyway.
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 01:26 PM
Nov 2012

valerief

(53,235 posts)
4. Hey, hey, hey! McCain knew how to save America, but he wouldn't tell unless he was elected.
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 01:59 PM
Nov 2012

So there are two people who know how to save America, and they're keeping it a secret.

SDjack

(1,448 posts)
3. Fox Newz flash for 2014: Obama is the lucky recipient of 9M jobs growth, thanks to
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 01:33 PM
Nov 2012

spade work done by Romney & Ryan during their campaign of 2012.

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