Dogs Against Romney Is on the MSN Front Page!

Our friends at Dogs Against Romney  are the subject of a front page article at MSN this afternoon. 

Mitt Romney's treatment of his Irish Setter Seamus many years back has been getting more and more press lately.  (Romney put the family pet, Seamus, in a kennel strapped to the top of his car for a 12 hour car ride.  The story is HERE.) 

Dogs Against Romney organized a protest at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show a few days back, and they continue to build up more and more friends and likes at Facebook.  (Yes, Mitt is mean!)  

But making the front page of MSN is, to me at least, quite a big deal.  

As I wrote last month (and so, so many people agree with me):  You can tell so much about a person by how they treat their dogs!

And don't miss the Mutt Romney Blues!  Poor ol' Seamus singing the blues to his "Boss" Mitt with the help of the great American guitarist and folksinger, Ry Cooder.   Brave New Films put this together on behalf of poor old Seamus.

Those Romney Tax Returns!!

Since I wrote my article (just after I heard about the Dogs Against Romney group), Romney published his long-awaited tax returns.  He made 21 million dollars while he was "unemployed".  That number is just staggering.  20 million would provide SNAP program (food stamp) assistance for about 4,000 families of four for a year---and Romney would still have one million a year to live on.  But I know, I know:  Romney earned his money (though he was unemployed).  Those people who need food stamps just didn't "plan well", "make good choices", or "work hard".  Grrrr.......   

What Became of Seamus?

I've also heard more rumors about Seamus.  I reiterate that these are only rumors; Mitt and his wife might be the only people who know the truth.  It appears that Seamus didn't return home from that long car ride.  Supposedly he lived out his days on a Canadian farm..  But some believe Seamus ran away.  And others believe.. well, parents for generations have told their kids that they gave the dog to a farm when they could no longer keep an animal for some reason.  But Seamus' ultimate fate remains a mystery. 

What's New at the Dogs Against Romney Shop?

Meanwhile, Dogs Against Romney keeps adding things to their shop.  See what's new!  Woof woof!!  Wag wag...!!

     

How Many Jobs Were Lost or Created Since 1999? (Year by year)

How Many Jobs Were Lost or Created Between 1999 and February 2015 in the United States of America?

Continue below.....

(See bottom for multiple year summaries; see bottom for summaries of both Bushes, Clinton, and Obama administrations; see bottom for links to month-by-month summaries.)

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2000?

• Jobs at end of 1999:          130,778,000
• Jobs GAINED 2000:            +1,946,000
• Total jobs at end of 2000:  132,724,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2001?

• Jobs LOST 2001:                 -1,735,000
• Total jobs at end of 2001:  130,989,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2002?

• Jobs LOST 2002:                    -508,000
• Total jobs at end of 2002:  130,481,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2003?

• Jobs ADDED 2003:                  +105,000
• Total jobs at end of 2003:    130,586,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2004?

• Jobs ADDED 2004:              +2,033,000
• Total jobs at end of 2004:   132,619,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2005?

• Jobs ADDED 2005:              +2,506,000
• Total jobs at end of 2005:   135,125,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2006?

• Jobs ADDED 2006:                +2,085,000
• Total jobs at end of 2006:    137,210,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2007?

• Jobs ADDED 2007:               +1,140,000
• Total jobs at end of 2007:    138,250,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2008?

• Jobs LOST 2008:                   -3,576,000
• Total jobs at end of 2008:    134,774,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2009?

• Jobs LOST 2009:                    -5,089,000
• Total jobs at end of 2009:     129,685,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2010?

• Jobs ADDED 2010:                  +1,066,000
• Total jobs at end of 2010:      130,751,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2011?

• Jobs ADDED 2011:                   +2,080,000 
• Total jobs at end of 2011:        132,831,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2012?

• Jobs ADDED 2012:                   +2,257,000
• Total jobs at end of 2012:        135,088,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2013?

• Jobs ADDED 2013:                    +2,388,000
• Total jobs at end of 2013:        137,476,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2014?

• Jobs ADDED 2014:                    +3,116,000
• Total jobs at end of 2014:         140,592,000

How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in 2015 to date?  (not yet updated for June 2015)

• Jobs ADDED 2015 to date:            +534,000
• Total current jobs:                    141,126,000

Other totals:

• Total jobs GAINED in Carter's Presidency (Jan 1977 to Jan 1981):                         +10,345,000
• Total jobs GAINED in Reagan's first term (Jan 1981 to Jan 1985):                          +5,336,000
• Total jobs GAINED in Reagan's second term (Jan 1985 to Jan 1989):                    +10,795,000
• Total jobs GAINED in all of Reagan's Presidency (Jan 1981 to Jan 1989):            +16,131,000
• Total jobs GAINED in George H. W. Bush's Presidency (Jan 1989 to Jan 1993):      +2,637,000
• Total jobs GAINED in Clinton's first term (Jan 1993 to Jan 1997):                        +11,577,000
• Total jobs GAINED in Clinton's second term (Jan 1997 to Jan 2001):                    +11,312,000
• Total jobs GAINED in all of Clinton's Presidency (Jan 1993 to Jan 2001):            +22,889,000
• Total jobs GAINED in Bush's first term (Jan 2001 to Jan 2005):                               +59,000
• Total jobs GAINED in Bush's second term (Jan 2005 to Jan 2009):                      +1,224,000
• Total jobs GAINED in all of Bush's Presidency (Jan 2001 to Jan 2009):             +1,283,000
• Total jobs GAINED in Obama's first term (Jan 2009 to Jan 2013):                          +1,316,000
• Total jobs GAINED in Obama's second term (Jan 2013 to date):                             +5,833,000
• Total jobs GAINED in Obama's Presidency to date (Jan 2009 to date):            +7,149,000
• Total jobs GAINED since the "trough" of the recession, in February 2010:                                                                                 +11,477,000  
• Total number of jobs GAINED between January 2008 (pre-recession peak of jobs) and now, February 2015:
                                        +2,761,000
• Total jobs GAINED since December 1999:                                                          +10,348,000
• Total jobs GAINED since January 2001 (Start of Bush's Presidency):      +8,432,000
• Total jobs GAINED since January 2005 (Start of Bush's second term):     +8,373,000
• Total jobs GAINED since December 2006:                                                            +3,916,000  
• Total jobs GAINED since December 2007:       
•                                         +2,776,000
• Total jobs GAINED since December 2008:                                                              +6,352,000
• Total jobs GAINED since December 2010:                                                            +10,375,000
• Total jobs GAINED since December 2011:                                                              +8,295,000
• Total jobs GAINED since December 2012:                                                              +6,038,000
• Total jobs GAINED since December 2013:                                                              +3,650,000
• Total jobs GAINED since December 2014:                                                                 +534,000
• Total number of jobs LOST between January 2008 and December 2012:       -3,301,000
• Total number of jobs LOST from / between 2007  and 2012 (From December 2006 until December 2012):                                               -2,146,000
• Total number of jobs LOST between January 2008 (peak of jobs) and December 2013:
                                         -979,000
• Total number of jobs LOST from / between 2007  and 2013 (From December 2006 until December 2013):                                             -176,000

* All numbers are from latest REVISIONS of BLS seasonally adjusted jobs numbers.  Both private and government jobs are included in these numbers.  

How Many Jobs Has Obama Created or Lost? (June 2015 update)

How Many Government Jobs (Federal, State, and/or Local) have been created since Obama took office? 

June 2015: Unemployment rate, jobs news, other reports 

   How Many Total Jobs In America in 2014?  How Many Jobs Gained or Lost in America in 2014?

How Many Total Jobs In America in 2013?  How Many Jobs Gained or Lost in America in 2013?

How Many Jobs Were Lost in 2008?

How Many Jobs Were Lost Before Obama Took Office?

How Many Government Jobs (Federal, State, and/or Local) have been created since Obama took office? 

Private & Government Jobs Gained or Lost Under Obama? (January 2012 update)

JUNE 2013 BLS Jobs Numbers and Unemployment Rate were released today, Friday, July 5th.  Details and links HERE!!

This report has been updated for JUNE 2013 HERE!!

Latest (All 2013, 2012, & 2011 Updates) HERE!

The following numbers are as of January 2012.  For current numbers and reports, please click one of the links above.

How many jobs (total, private, and government) have been lost or gained since Obama was inaugurated?  

• 4,317,000 jobs (in seasonally adjusted numbers) were LOST in TOTAL from the time Obama took office until the "trough" of the recession in early 2010.  That's a decrease of 3.2%. 
• 3,165,000 jobs (in seasonally adjusted numbers) were CREATED from the "trough" of the recession until now, January 2012.  That's an increase of 2.45%.
• In total, 1,152,000  jobs (in seasonally adjusted numbers) were LOST from the time Obama took office until now, January 2012.  That's a decrease of 0.86%. 
• We have experienced 16 months WITHOUT job losses since September 2010.  We have ADDED 2,524,000 jobs during those 16 months. 
• We now have 132,409,000 TOTAL non-farm jobs.  

How many PRIVATE sector jobs have been lost or gained since Obama was elected?

• 4,212,000 private-sector jobs (in seasonally adjusted numbers) were LOST from the time Obama took office until the "trough" of the recession in early 2010.  That's a decrease of 3.8%.
• 3,663,000 private-sector jobs (in seasonally adjusted numbers) were GAINED OR CREATED from the "trough" of the recession until now, January 2012.  That's an increase of 3.43%.
• In total, 549,000 private sector jobs (in seasonally adjusted numbers) were LOST from the time Obama took office until now, January 2012.  That's a net decrease of 0.49%. 
• We have experienced 23 months of positive private-sector job GROWTH from February 2010 until January 2012.  We have added 3,663,000 private-sector jobs during those 23 months.    
• We now have 110,436,000 PRIVATE sector non-farm jobs.

How many GOVERNMENT jobs have been lost or gained since Obama was elected?

• 105,000 government jobs (in seasonally adjusted numbers) were LOST from the time Obama took office until the "trough" of the recession in early 2010.  That's a decrease of  .47%  (about half of a percent). 
• 498,000 government jobs (in seasonally adjusted numbers) were LOST from the "trough" of the recession until now, January 2012.  That's a decrease of 2.22%.
• In total, 603,000 government jobs (in seasonally adjusted numbers) were LOST from the time Obama took office until now, January 2012.  That's a decrease of 2.67%. 
• We have experienced decreases in the number of government jobs in 18 out of the last 20 months, starting in June 2010, when the layoff of 2010 Census workers began.  
• We now have 21,973,000 GOVERNMENT non-farm jobs, not including people in the military.  (Civilians working for the military are counted.)

Notes:  Current numbers taken from the January Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Report.  Historical numbers taken from various archived Employment Situation reports as indexed HERE. Specifics will be provided upon request; please email me or leave a comment.

Reagan and Obama: No, Things Were Not the Same!

"Reagan inherited an economy with similar problems to that inherited by Obama.  But by the third year, things were really simmering along and the GDP was growing at a very quick pace!  

Reagan's economic policies and tax cuts were therefore better than those of Obama." 

I've heard and read this in many places this winter.


Well...not so fast....

The Truth About Reagan and Carter and the 1981 recession

I read the following yesterday posted as a comment at the Huffington Post.  Let's debunk this fact by fact:

1.  "Ronald Reagan "inherited­" a very similar (to the current) economic downturn from Jimmy Carter in 1981."

2.  "Three years into Reagan's presidency his economic policies created over 6.3 MILLION jobs, reduced unemployment from double digits to 7%....Reagan created over 6 million jobs at the same point in his presidency as Obama is now."

3.  GDP growth was booming near 6% ...

4.  (Reagan did this)  WITHOUT spending TRILLIONS in taxpayer money.

5.  Reagan CUT taxes and the booming economy and the millions more people in the workforce with jobs actually INCREASED federal income tax revenue!!"

I think we need a few facts here:   

• The recession in 1981 was a Reagan recession. He inherited a DECLINING unemployme­nt rate from Carter, a DECLINING inflation rate, and an INCREASING number of jobs.  Carter's one term was the TOP one term for any modern Prez in % of job growth. 
• Unemployme­nt was NOT double digits when Reagan took office. In January 1981, unemployme­nt was 7.5%. The highest unemployment rate under Carter was 7.8% in the summer of 1980. Reagan's policies (those severe tax CUTS) got the unemployme­nt rate climbing, and it went up to 10.8% in Fall 1982. When Reagan's budget director realized that the economy was in trouble (Hmm- maybe those tax CUTS were extreme?), Reagan was willing, with the help of a CO-OPERATI­VE DEMOCRATIC House of Representatives, to roll back some tax cuts--- and within half a year, the unemployment rate started dropping and the economy was rolling again.
• Reagan had NOT created over 6 million jobs by the same point in his presidency as Obama's current point (January 2012 vs. January 1984).    There were 91,030,000 jobs when Reagan took office from Carter in January 1981. (This was a new high in the United States.)  Jobs increased for five months after Reagan was elected and then started to decline. Jobs were down to 88,770,000 in late 1982. When taxes were increased in late 1982, jobs started to come back. In January 1984, (same time frame as now), there were 92,657,000 jobs, an increase of 1,627,000 from the time Reagan took office.  From the "trough" of the 1981-2 recession, the increase was 3,887,000. Remember Reagan inherited a declining unemployme­nt rate and an increasing number of jobs.

Remember: Reagan was working with a DEMOCRATIC House in Congress. They could have played obstructio­nist games as the Reagan administration was on the ropes in late 1982, but it appears that they cared more about the American people than about getting the Republican out of the White House.  However, the current obstructio­nist Republican Congress will do anything, including prolonging the misery of the American people, to get Obama out of office.    (Click on that link if you haven't heard about the Inauguration 2008 night meeting of Republicans who were busy plotting to keep you in misery.. just to recapture the White House.)

I will repeat one thing: It was Reagan's tax CUTS in 1981 that plunged the country into that deep Reagan recession. It was the tax INCREASES in late 1982 that got the economy moving again.

Now let's look at those GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth rates:  

The GDP did take a nasty dip during the spring of 1980.  It popped back up pretty quickly, and the GDP was chugging along at an increase of 7+% when Carter was elected.  It hummed along at an increase of 8+% in early 1981 during and after Reagan's inauguration.  Most of the problems in the economy could be related to the 1979 oil crisis, resulting from both the Iranian revolution and the start of the Iran/Iraq war.  

Reagan inherited an economy that had a quick brief downturn, turned around, and was starting to cook.   Period. 

Then in Spring 1981, the GDP again went negative, with a small recovery in the summer.  Reagan's major tax cut, the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, was signed in mid August 1981.  Starting in the 4th quarter, October 1981, things really fell apart, with a 5% decline in GDP in that quarter and a decline of over 6% in the GDP in the first quarter of 1982.  Things were very dicey throughout 1982 and the unemployment rate kept climbing from 7.5% when Reagan was inaugurated up to 10.8% in late 1982.  

Congress apparently worked on a tax INCREASE all year, and finally a tax increase package, the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, was signed into law in November 1982.  And a couple of months later, the 10.8% unemployment rate started to decline and the GDP started to grow again..vehemently.  By the end of Reagan's third year in office, in late 1983, the unemployment rate was 8.3% and the GDP started growing again.. with a vengeance.    

Some charts and information for comparison:  

GDP growth by quarter from Economagic.com :

1980 01 1.2909 1980 02 -7·9500 1980 03 -0·7381 1980 04 37.6023 1981 01 8.5781 1981 02 -3.1550 1981 03 4.9475 1981 04 -4.8870 1982 01 8-6.4081 1982 02 12.1843 1982 03 1-1·5275 1982 04 30.3143

Here's what was happening at the time Obama was elected:

2008 01 95-1·7652 2008 02 121.3241 2008 03 73-3·6629 2008 04 72-8.8903 2009 01 4-6.6663 2009 02 2-0.6900 2009 03 11·6940 2009 04 93·8027 2010 01 483.9339 2010 02 623·7875 2010 03 212.5074 2010 04 942.3493

Notice in particular the three quarters of significant downturn that started before Obama took office and during his earliest months in office.  Compare 2008 Q3 & Q4 and 2009 Q1 with 1980 Q3 & Q4 and 1981 Q1: 

2008 Q3       -3.7                   1980 Q3      -0.7

2008 Q4       -8.9                   1980 Q4      +7.6

2009 Q1       -6.7                   1981 Q1      +8.6

No, Reagan and Obama did NOT inherit similar economies.

Let's compare the unemployment rate situation around the time the two men took office:  

                                       2008-9                     1980-1

July                                  5.8                              7.8

August                             6.1                              7.7

September                        6.1                              7.5

October                            6.5                              7.5 

November                         6.8                              7.5 

December                         7.3                              7.2

January                            7.8                              7.5

February                           8.3                              7.4

March                               8.7                              7.4

April                                 8.9                              7.2

Which column is increasing.. rapidly.. and which column is decreasing, though slowly?

HERE is a list of Reagan tax measures, both increases and decreases.
From ThinkProgress:  Ten Things Conservatives Don't Want You To Know About Reagan  

Another good link comparing the two Presidents and the situations they "inherited":  Why the Obama Recovery is Much More Impressive Then the Reagan Recovery

(Obama/Reagan "Photo/illustration" from a Time magazine cover HERE! )

Job Openings & Labor Turnovers: 3.8 People per Job Opening

Fewer Layoffs and Separations, More Job Openings, More People Quitting.


But still 3.8 Jobseekers for every job! 

This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the JOLTS report (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey) for the month of December 2011.  This report always runs a month behind the regular monthly Employment Situation Report.

This report continues the good news of recent jobs reports and shows that fewer people are being laid off, more people are quitting and that there are more job openings than there were in November.


3.8 Jobseekers for Every Job:  How does that get computed?

However, we still have 3.78 jobseekers for every job opening out there.  (This peaked at approximately 6.5 jobseekers for every worker back in summer of 2009.)  Yes, it is an improvement from 4.1 last month and 4.2 the month before, but, if every job opening were filled tomorrow, we'd still have over 9,000,000 people out of work. 

We have not had such a high number of job openings since summer of 2008, so we are going in the right direction.. but we still have quite a distance to go.   We had over 4 million job openings during 2006 and throughout most of 2007. 


We have to fudge a little to get the "Jobseekers for every job" number because the JOLTS numbers are released a month after the monthly Employment Situation report numbers.  The latest monthly employment report, for January  2012, showed 12,758,000 people officially unemployed.  Divide that by the number of job openings on the latest JOLTS report (for December 2011), which is 3,376,000.  Voila.. we have a jobseekers-to-jobs ratio of 3.78.       

Why is it good that people quit?  

As I wrote above, the number of people quitting is again climbing.  That  either means that people already have a new job or they are confident that they will soon get one.  That's always a good thing for the labor market as a whole.

The Numbers:

• Job Openings:  3,376,000 (vs. 3,118,000 in November)
• Hires:  4,036,000 (vs. 4.132,000 in November)
• Total Separations (includes Layoffs, Discharges, Quits and "other"):  3,909,000 (vs. 3,986,000 in November)
• Layoffs:  1,644,000 (vs. 1,718,000 in November)
• Quits:  1,955,000 and 49% of "separations" (vs. 1,926,000 and 48% of separations in November)

Best Regions for Job Openings and Hiring:

• The South for job openings.
• The South and the Midwest for hiring.
• The South has the most "separations".
• The South has the most "quits".
• The South and the Midwest have the most layoffs.

Best Industries for Job Openings and Hiring:

• Job openings:  Business and professional services and accommodations and food services.
• Hires:  Arts, entertainment, and recreation, leisure and hospitality, and construction. 

Most separations?

• Same as above:  Arts, entertainment, and recreation, leisure and hospitality, and construction.

Read the whole report HERE.  

Private & Govt Jobs Lost & Gained, Month By Month in 2011 through 2014 (Updated for February 2014)

How many jobs, total, private, and government have been gained (created, added) or lost (cut) month by month since December 2010? 

Numbers of jobs in thousands, NET* jobs lost/gained as stated.

Green numbers = jobs gained; red numbers = jobs lost.

Month....	Total Jobs	Jobs lost/gained	Private Jobs	Prvt Jobs lost/gained	Gov't Jobs	Govt Jobs lost/gained
Jan 2011	130,464	+69,000	108,208	+80,000	22,249	-9,000
Feb.	130,660	+196,000	108,451	+243,000	22,212	-37,000
March	130,865	+205,000	108,674	+223,000	22,197	-15,000
April	131,169	+304,000	108,977	+303,000	22,184	-13,000
May	131,284	+115,000	109,160	+183,000	22,130	-54,000
June	131,413	+209,000	109,337	+177,000	22,112	-18,000
July	131,571	+78,000	109,543	+206,000	22,033	-79,000
August	131,703	+132,000	109,672	+129,000	22,066	+33,000
Sept.	131,928	+225,000	109,928	+256,000	22,052	-14,000
Oct.	132,094	+166,000	110,102	+174,000	22,025	-27,000
Nov.	132,268	+174,000	110,299	+197,000	22,004	-19,000
Dec 2011	132,498	+230,000	110,548	+249,000	21,993	-**,000
Jan 2012	132,809	+311,000	110,871	+323,000	21,938	-2,000
Feb	133,080	+271,000	111,136	+265,000	21,944	+6,000
Mar	133,285	+205,000	111,344	+208,000	21,941	-3,000
Apr	133,397	+112,000	111,464	+120,000	21,933	-8,000
May	133,522	+125,000	111,616	+152,000	21,906	-27,000
June	133,609	+87,000	111,694	+78,000	21,915	+9,000
July	133,762	+153,000	111,871	+177,000	21,891	-24,000
August	133,927	+165,000	112,002	+131,000	21,925	+34,000
Sept.	134,065	+138,000	112,120	+118,000	21,945	+20,000
Oct.	134,225	+160,000	112,337	+217,000	21,888	-57,000
Nov.	134,472	+247,000	112,593	+256,000	21,879	-9,000
Dec 2012	134,691	+219,000	112,817	+224,000	21,874	-5,000
Jan 2013	135,261	+197,000	113,395	+219,000	21,866	-8,000
Feb	135,541	+280,000	113,658	+263,000	21,883	+17,000
Mar	135,682	+141,000	113,822	+164,000	21,860	-23,000
Apr	135,885	+203,000	114,010	+188,000	21,875	+15,000
May	136,084	+199,000	114,232	+222,000	21,852	-23,000
June	136,285	+201,000	114,433	+201,000	21,852	-EVEN
July	136,434	+149,000	114,603	+170,000	21,831	-21,000
August	136,636	+202,000	114,783	+180,000	21,853	+22,000
Sept	136,800	+164,000	114,936	+153,000	21,864	+11,000
Oct	137,037	+237,000	115,183	+247,000	21,854	-10,000
Nov	137,311	+274,000	115,455	+272,000	21,856	+2,000
Dec 2013	137,395	+84,000	115,541	+86,000	21,854	-2,000
Jan 2014	137,524	+129,000	115,686	+145,000	21,838	-16,000
Feb	137,699	+175,000	115,848	+162,000	21,851	+13,000

Total ADDED in 2011 through 2014 to date:

• A total of 2,103,000 jobs total were ADDED or CREATED in 2011.  That is an average of 175,300 new jobs per month in 2011.  
• A total of 2,170,000 jobs were ADDED or CREATED in 2012.  That is an average of 180,800 new jobs per month in 2012.   
• A total of 2,322,000 jobs total were ADDED or CREATED in 2013.  That is an average of 193,500 new jobs per month in 2013.
• A total of 304,000 jobs total have been ADDED or CREATED in 2014 to date (as of February 2014).  That is an average of 152,000 new jobs per month in 2014 to date

Total ADDED since December 2010:


Since December 2010, including February 2014, 6,954,000 jobs were ADDED in total.  This is an average of 183,000 new jobs per month over the past 38 months.

Private Sector Jobs ADDED in 2011 through 2014:

• 2,420,000 jobs were ADDED in the private sector in 2011; that is an average of 202,000 new private-sector jobs per month in 2011. 
• A total of 2,269,000 private-sector jobs were ADDED or CREATED in 2012.  That is an average of 189,000 new private-sector jobs per month in 2012.
• A total of 2,368,000 private sector jobs were ADDED or CREATED in 2013.  That is an average of 197,300 new jobs per month in 2013.
• A total of 307,000 private sector jobs have been ADDED or CREATED in 2014 to date (as of February 2014). That is an average of 154,000 new jobs per month in 2014 to date.

Private sector jobs ADDED since December 2010:

Since December 2010, including February 2014, 7,366,000 jobs were ADDED in the private sector.  This is an average of  194,000 new private-sector jobs per month over the past 38 months.

Government Jobs LOST in 2011 through 2014:

• 317,000 jobs were LOST in the government sector in 2011; that is an average of 26,400 government sector jobs LOST per month in 2011. 
• A total of 76,000 government jobs were LOST in 2012.  That is an average of 6,300 government jobs LOST per month in 2012.
• A total of 46,000 government jobs were LOST in 2013.  That is an average of 3,800 government jobs lost per month in 2013. 
• A total of 3,000 government jobs were LOST in 2014 to date (as of January 2014).  That is an average of 1,500 government jobs lost per month in 2014 to date. 

Government jobs LOST since December 2010:

Since December 2010, including February 2014, 412,000 jobs were LOST in the government sector.  This is an average of 11,000 government sector jobs LOST per month over the past 38 months.

(Note:  All of my employment number reports are based on monthly reports and data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  States numbers reports are based on the monthly Regional and State Employment/Unemployment Survey .  The BLS reports include month over month and year over year numbers of state job numbers.  My analysis is taken from the monthly BLS data copied to an Excel spreadsheet every month.  I calculate detailed percentage increases/decreases, 3 month numbers, year to date and year over year numbers, and I rank the states and employment sectors according to various metrics. *NET jobs:  All jobs numbers in the monthly reports are NET jobs numbers.  In other words, jobs are lost and gained every month, in good economic times and bad.  The number of jobs lost or gained and the number of workers lost or gained represents all job gains after all losses are subtracted or all job losses after all gains are subtracted.  In months in which there are jobs gains, more jobs have been added than jobs lost.  In months in which there are jobs losses, more jobs have been lost than have been added.  Since September 2010, we have had ONLY net job gains.)