Economists estimate number of years before jobs return to states

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Across the country, there are 4.7 percent fewer jobs today than there were when the recession began in December 2007.

And remember that the United States population has grown in the last five years, so if the economy were healthy there would be more jobs today than there were then. This analysis only models when we’ll be back to square one.
(via NYTimes)