Still that’s a raw numbers chart not percentage of population. Someone upthread suggested it would look different if presented as a percentage.
Well sure it does, there were 2.8 million jobs lost in 1945 when the US population was about 140 million.
This year 2.6 million jobs lost, population about 300 million.
So as a percentage of total population (not work force) 2% of the population lost jobs in 1945 --- .9% of the population lost jobs in 2008.