the labor department has tons of numbers available on all those topics?
but the problem was that we LOST probably millions of jobs in the first year of the recession alone and we're still recovering from that...
if you lose 11 million and gain 9, you're still down... and the rate of pay is going to be low, because the economy is still recovering...and you have more looking than you have jobs
the problem is, you cons have NO IDEA how bad this recession actually was... much worse, PARTICULARLY JOBS WISE than any recession since the great depression...
we had 6 months, (Bush's last few and Obama's first few) if I remember correctly where we lost OVER 600k jobs a month...
in Carter's and Reagan's recession, he had NO month with over 600k losses, even at the worst points... and we've only had ONE month like that since the great depression...and it was barely over 600k, while some of those months were around 800k... a HISTORICALLY BAD recession
EDIT: now to get to your numbers... and where we have some growth now...
the latest unemployment report shows where the growth is, and they release this every month...
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 217,000 in May, with gains in professional and business services, health care and social assistance, food services and drinking places, and transportation and warehousing. Over the prior 12 months, nonfarm payroll
employment growth had averaged 197,000 per month. (See table B-1.)
Professional and business services added 55,000 jobs in May, the same as its average monthly job gain over the prior 12 months. In May, the industry added 7,000 jobs each in computer systems design and related services and in management and technical consulting.
Employment in temporary help services continued to trend up (+14,000) and has grown by 224,000 over the past year.
In May, health care and social assistance added 55,000 jobs. The health care industry added 34,000 jobs over the month, twice its average monthly gain for the prior 12 months. Within health care, employment rose in May by 23,000 in ambulatory health care services (which includes offices of physicians, outpatient care centers, and home health care services) and by 7,000 in hospitals. Employment rose by 21,000 in social assistance, compared with an average gain of 7,000 per month over the prior 12 months.
Within leisure and hospitality, employment in food services and drinking places continued to grow, increasing by 32,000 in May and by 311,000 over the past year.
Transportation and warehousing employment rose by 16,000 in May. Over the prior 12 months, the industry had added an average of 9,000 jobs per month. In May, employment growth occurred in support activities for transportation (+6,000) and couriers and messengers (+4,000).
Manufacturing employment changed little over the month but has added 105,000 jobs over the past year. Within the industry, durable goods added 17,000 jobs in May and has accounted for the net job gain in manufacturing over the past 12 months.
Employment in other major industries, including mining and logging, construction, wholesale trade, retail trade, information, financial activities, and government, showed little change over the month."
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
and then at the bottom, it has links to TONS of numbers that get much more in depth