by Cody Lyon-Opinion

In truth, as the Labor Department data shows, big as it is, the private sector of the entire United States only added 41,000 new jobs to payrolls this past May. That leaves the unemployment rate essentially unchanged at 9.7%, a slight drop from 9.9% in April.

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Raybin's FPed MLW post says: In a nutshell, the Bush economy has created 4.5 million jobs.

What that figure it doesn't take into account is the increase in the population and hence the increase in employment-ready population. When we do that, there was an effective job loss during the 5+ years under the current administration.