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Job Gains: A Longer View

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It wasn’t that long ago when we were losing 800,000 jobs per month. For the last few months we’ve gained around 300,000 per month. Progress.

— Michael R. Strain is deputy director of economic policy studies and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. You can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/MichaelRStrain.

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