Chart: Payroll employment and the number of jobs needed to keep up with growth in the potential labor force, 2000–2012

Figure A

Payroll employment and the number of jobs needed to keep up with growth in the potential labor force, 2000–2012

Source: Authors' analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics public data series and Congressional Budget Office data (CBO 2012a)

This chart appears in:

From free-fall to stagnation: Five years after the start of the Great Recession, extraordinary policy measures are still needed, but are not forthcoming

Previous chart: « Unemployment rates for various demographic groups, 2007 and today

Next chart: Unemployment rates by educational attainment, 2007 and 2012 »