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Phantom jobs and job losses

TIM KANE

AMERICANS are working. But how many of them? The answer to that question can have profound political consequences. Employment was a big issue in the 2004 presidential campaign, as George W. Bush and John Kerry sparred over how many jobs had been created or lost, and how to create more, and better, jobs in the future.

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