Source for job loss?

[rocktop15]

I need to find a good source that says there were around 3 million jobs lost under Bush. I'm doing a speech for this. Thanks.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. You could try here, this SHOULD be the official source

http://www.bls.gov/bls/employment.htm

but it is a gov't agency, so its either scrubbed, spun or obfuscated.

[hamerfan]

2. Here's one....

Actually, they're saying 2.7 million jobs lost. Hope this helps...

http://www.jobwatch.org/

Keep up the good work!

[daa]

3. Remember that is private sector jobs lost

since the government employment increased.

[papau]

4. Payroll survey links below - Greenspan says other (household) data is bad

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

http://www.bls.gov/ces/cesbtabs.htm

You will find that the Bush shortfall - after adding the new 300000 temp jobs in March (no increase in full time jobs was recorded in the payroll survey in March) is down to about 2 million jobs.

The 62.4% of the population employed that we had under Clinton, will take, as the population expands, a great deal more time than Bush would obtain if he won the 04 election (more than 4 years awarded to the winner in 04, even assuming EVERY month had job increases of more than 300000).