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The Benchmark For A Jobs Recovery: 300k New Jobs Per Month

First Posted: 03/18/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 03:55 PM ET

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Here we are, having suffered huge job losses, and needing to make up the lost ground -- and a report showing that we're still losing jobs, but not as fast, is grounds for celebration?

Anyway, I thought it might be useful to create a sort of benchmark for the level of job growth that would really count as good news.

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Here we are, having suffered huge job losses, and needing to make up the lost ground -- and a report showing that we're still losing jobs, but not as fast, is grounds for celebration? Anyway, I thoug...
Here we are, having suffered huge job losses, and needing to make up the lost ground -- and a report showing that we're still losing jobs, but not as fast, is grounds for celebration? Anyway, I thoug...
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