Chapter 1. A Resilient Labor Market

Figure 1-1. Payroll jobs increased steadily from September 2003 to December 2007

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics program.

• Figure 1-1 shows the record of monthly changes in nonfarm payroll employment from September 2003 through June 2008.
   
• The U.S. labor market recorded 52 consecutive months of job growth from September 2003 to December 2007, the longest run of consecutive monthly gains on record. The monthly payroll employment series goes back to 1939.

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