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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (517531)	12/30/2003 9:46:55 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769670

Kenneth, According to the BLS, there were 138,603,000 people in the USA who were employed in November 2003. According to the BLS, there were 137,573,000 people in the USA who were employed in September 2003. That's over a million people in three months. The BLS definition of employment as: "People are classified as employed if they did any work at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked in their own business, profession, or on their own farm; or worked without pay at least 15 hours in a family business or farm. People are also counted as employed if they were temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal reasons." you can find the information here: bls.gov re:"90,000 jobs not enough. It will take at least 150,000 jobs per month just to keep the unemployment rate where it is."