133,561,000 workers Jan 2009
133,500,000(P) workers Sept 2012
Total Non Farm Payroll Seasonal Adjusted
Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=CE_cesbref1
There's no way to spin THAT loss of 5 million jobs.
Team Romney needs to keep those HARD figures in the public eye, and not the manufactured percentages and projections that the current administration is using.