To keep up with population growth, the economy must add 150,000 to 200,000 jobs a month.

So far this year, the economy has been growing at a 3.7 percent annual rate and adding an average of 226,000 jobs a month.

From the end of 1996 until March, the economy had added about 235,000 jobs a month.

In either case, the situation is far different from the previous five years, when the economy, on average, added 2.8 million jobs a year.

Despite all the president's promises, the economy added just 21,000 jobs last month.

In the last three years, the American economy has added about six million jobs.

The American economy added 112,000 new jobs last month, far fewer than expected.

Indeed, the economy has added more than 10 million new jobs since 1993.

In the first four months of that year, the economy added almost 1.3 million jobs.

During the Clinton years, the economy added 236,000 jobs in an average month.