Some Employment Statistics from CR

[mEDITate-OR:
not remember that we have some "incoming"...
----
CR starts the week with a table showing U.S. precisely where we are.
Later this week, when the weekly jobless report and the monthly jobs created report are out...
CR will show U.S. where we are now.
--------
Guesstimate =
still out there on the "L" shaped lack of recovery.
We will see.
------------
Said CR:
Since December 2007, the U.S. working age civilian population has increased by 6.157 million people - however the number of people saying the are in the labor force has actually declined.
Total nonfarm payrolls are still 6.94 million below the December 2007 level,
and private payrolls are 6.69 million lower.
the U.S. needs 6.94 million jobs, plus some percent of the increase in the labor force, to get back to the 2007 employment situation.
perhaps the most staggering number is the 6.2 million workers who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more.
--------
Please, note:
That is from two (2) years before the election of Obama.
---------

Employment Statistics (Thousands or Percent)1
	May-11	Dec-07	Change
Civilian noninstitutional population (16 and over)	239,313	233,156	6,157
Civilian labor force	153,693	153,936	-243
Total nonfarm Payroll	131,043	137,983	-6,940
Private Payroll	108,916	115,606	-6,690
Unemployment Rate	9.1%	5.0%	4.1%
Unemployed	13,914	7,664	6,250
Part-Time for Economic Reasons	8,548	4,638	3,910
Marginally Attached to Labor Force2	2,206	1,395	811
Discouraged Workers2	822	363	459
U-6 Unemployment rate3	15.8%	8.8%	7.0%
Unemployed for 27 Weeks & over	6,200	1,327	4,873

==========
Some Employment Statistics
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/07/some-employment-statistics.html
=======