JACKSONVILLE, FL - JANUARY 30: Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tosses snacks to reporters on his plane at the Jacksonville International airport before flying to St. Petersburg, Florida on January 30, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida. Romney is campaigning across the state ahead of the January 31 Florida primary. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Recovery Should Be 500,000 Jobs A Month
“We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs per month,” the former Massachusetts Governor said on “Fox & Friends.” “This is way, way, way off from what should happen in a normal recovery.”
Half a million jobs a month is certainly an ambitious goal. But it’s an arbitrary one as well. During George W. Bush’s presidency, there was never a single month in which job growth topped 400,000, let alone 500,000, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. In fact, as Think Progress pointed out, “there have only been 16 months since 1939” in which the economy added half a million jobs in one month.