Under Obama unemployent is now 5%

[LiberalArkie]

20. 2008 job report (Your wish is my command) I'm a data junkie

2008

MONTH JOBS ADDED (Final) JOBS ADDED (Original) COMMENTS

Jan 15,000 -17,000 .6% growth over last year, but manufacturing lost 2.7% jobs.
Feb -87,000 -63,000 .4% growth over last year, while manufacturing lost 3% of its jobs.
Mar -79,000 -80,000 This was the worst monthly job loss since the last recession, and a mere .18% gain in the last year. The last time year-over-year job growth trended down this severely was in 2001, which led to 29 months of job losses.
April -213,000 -20,000 There were only .18% more jobs, and 3.38% fewer manufacturing jobs, than in April 2007
May -183,000 -49,000 Year-over-year, employment declined .11%. This was the first time there was a decline in year-over-year jobs since 2003, the end of the last recession. There were 3.55% fewer manufacturing jobs.
June -172,000 -62,000 Employment wast .24% down from the prior year. Restaurant jobs also suffered, for the first time.
July -210,000 -51,000 In the last year 150,000 jobs were lost, a .37% decline.
Aug -259,000 -84,000 Employment declined .5% during the year.
Sep -452,000 -159,000 Employment declined .64% during the year.
Oct -476,000 -240,000 There were 1.5 million fewer jobs than last year.
Nov -765,000 -533,000 In the last 12 months, 1.9 million jobs were lost -- 604,000 were in manufacturing.
Dec -696,000 -524,000 Employment declined by 2.5 million jobs, faster than in the 2001 recession, which never lost more than 2.1 million jobs in any 12-month period.


http://useconomy.about.com/od/economicindicators/a/Job-Stats.htm