"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."


Friday, January 07, 2005

More Jobs Added

The December job numbers came out today, with several interesting numbers to report:
  • There were 157, 000 jobs added to the economy in December '04.
  • There were 2.2 million total jobs created in '04.
  • According to Household Survey, which interviews households instead of businesses, 2.4 million jobs were added in 2004.
  • Contradicting the claim that George Bush will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs in his term, which was constantly used by John Kerry throughout the campaign, the economy has added a net of 114, 000 jobs since January 2001.

Considering all that the economy and the nation has been through over the last four years, the fact that we have added more jobs than we have lost in that span is pretty remarkable. It's amazing what will happen when you give the people back more of their own money during a rough patch.


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