"1.078 million jobs created this year.
1.483 million jobs created since last August."
How many jobs created since January 2001? You and I know that will be the 'talking point'. It's all a matter of when you start measuring.
1,870,000 by the Household Survey, which counts self-employed people and those employed at new businesses not surveyed by the Payroll survey.
http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet
Since January of 2002, after 9/11 and the temporary shock to the economy, 3,955,000 jobs have been created according to the Household Survey.
-1.116 million.