Bigger population.
In addition, 4000 illegal immigrants cross the border every day. Why? because they find jobs here. That's about a million jobs a year that you won't hear about, since its under the table.
That can't explain it. How can more people have jobs than ever before and at the same time we have had a net loss of jobs? The two 'facts' are mutually exclusive.
The other trick in those statistics is that they count anyone who was unemployed for even one day as being unemployed. So, theoretically, you could have had three million people unemployed one day and then have them all find work the next day. This type of reporting quotes this as three million people lost their jobs.
very quick and glib reply. not very accurate, though.