Job Growth in the US Economy

The U.S. economy is looking better on the jobs front as illustrated by this chart which is taken from  http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com .  Both the household survey[1]  and the establishment survey[2] are showing positive gains.  The estalishment survey shows a gain of 1.5 million private sector jobs and the household survey, which typically lags, shows a gain of a half million jobs.  No one really knows what the actual is, but we can be certain that the US economy  finally adding jobs after several years of dramatic and dislocating losses that began in late 2007 or early 2008.

The chart below, taken from www.chartoftheday.com on May 12, 2010, puts the jobs data into perspective by comparing job losses following the beginning of the most recent economic recession (solid red line) to that of the prior recession that ended in 2001 (dashed gold line) and the average recession from 1950-1999 (dashed blue line). As the  chart illustrates, the job losses during 2008 and 2009 were more than three times as great as the declines that resulted from recessions during the last half of the 20th century.  

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[1] defined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Population_Survey

[2] defined at http://www.bls.gov/ces/

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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