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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 07:29 PM
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60. Stand Back! He's got a calculator!
Let's examine some numbers, shall we?

The USA's population on July 1, 2004 was 293.7 million, up 1% from July 1, 2003. If the rate held steady at 1%, there were 296.7 people by July 1, 2005. An increase of 2.937 million people for the year or about 244,750 new people each month. That means we need that many new jobs just to stay up with population grouth. But only 207,000 jobs were created, a net deficit of 37,750 jobs for the month.

So tell me why this is such a fantastic number of new jobs again?

:shrug:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2004-12-22-sun-belt_x.htm
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