Here is the BLS site. This is where you start for some historic trends.
data.bls.gov
Taking the years after the 1990/1991 recession as a baseline, here are the jobs creation figures from BLS.
1993: 2,478K jobs (2.5 million thereabouts as baseline)
1994: 3,583K <-- good year
1995: 1,833K
1996: 2,811K
1997: 3,129K <-- good year
1998: 2,735K
1999: 2,059K
2000: 1,703K
2001: (1,750K)
2002: (403K)
2003: 42K (at least its a positive number)
2004: 1,951K
2005: 2,446K
2006: 2,057K
Conclusion: we have had ONE year in this decade where our job creation met our 1993 baseline of close to 2.5K jobs per year (2005). Every other year was substandard. And since we are 15 years later than last decade, we would expect a 10% employment GAIN in this decade due to population growth....... nada.
There is no booming job market in this decade. A booming job market is close to 3 million jobs a year.
'nuff said, please try to do some RESEARCH next time before you blow your top. |
