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To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (78743)	6/2/2007 9:09:57 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

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.