{"id":38219,"date":"2013-09-09T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38219"},"modified":"2013-09-08T08:41:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T13:41:03","slug":"chart-your-own-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38219","title":{"rendered":"Chart Your Own Recovery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many jobs a month do we have to add to bring the level of employment back to pre-recession levels?<\/p>\n<p>How long will it take to get back to pre-recession employment at current &#8211; or any &#8211; rate of job &#8220;creation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamiltonproject.org\/jobs_gap\/\">Check it out for yourself!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hint &#8211; at the current rate (169,000 a month, before adjustments), we&#8217;re ten years away. \u00a0Although the calculator doesn&#8217;t distinguish between full-time and part-time jobs &#8211; although under the Obama notion of &#8220;recovery&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/09\/the-growth-in-part-time-employment.html\">the same number of jobs doesn&#8217;t mean the same kind of prosperity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many jobs a month do we have to add to bring the level of employment back to pre-recession levels? How long will it take to get back to pre-recession employment at current &#8211; or any &#8211; rate of job &#8220;creation?&#8221; Check it out for yourself! Hint &#8211; at the current rate (169,000 a month, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-the-great-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38222,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38219\/revisions\/38222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}