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Employment and Jobs

June 29th, 2009 at 09:25am Bob Trojan

the current discussion about all the new jobs being created?  Well, let’s look at the facts as published by the Dept. of Labor…   Employed

Employment numbers (thous.):

4th Qtr. 08: 144,046

1st Qtr. 09: 141,578

May 09 (latest data): 140,570

Now, how do you expect me to believe the statemenys about how many jobs are being created?

And how many new jobs will created by the Clean Energy Act?

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