Bush unemployment by the numbers:
* 135,000: average number of jobs created monthly under every president since Truman
* -79,189: average number of jobs created monthly under Bush
* 1.2 million: net number of jobs lost from the economy since 2001
* 8.1 million: total number of Americans counted as unemployed
* 2.4 million: number of people who have become unemployed since 2001
* 56.9%: percentage of re-employed workers who had to take lower-paying jobs
* 10%: increase in bankruptcies since 2001
* 50%: increase in out-of-pocket health care costs for workers since 2001
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Sources, in order: (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3/04), (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3/04), (msnbc.com, 8/04), (House Appropriations Committee, 3/04), (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3/04). (New York Times, 8/04), (Kaiser Family Foundation, 4/04), (American Bankruptcy Institute, 3/04), (Economic Policy Institute), (Economic Policy Institute).
