Nine states have regained all jobs lost to recession – The Business Journals

Nine states and the District of Columbia have recovered all of the jobs they lost during the recession. The other 41 states are still working on their comebacks.

On Numbers analyzed state-by-state employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics    for May 2007 and the same month this year. The economic downturn officially began in December 2007, so the five-year study period allowed a comparison of pre-recession and current employment levels.

Texas emerged as the big winner, adding 410,400 jobs in half a decade. New York was a distant second with a gain of 88,600…

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