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"I was Governor of Vermont for so long, I served through BOTH Bush recessions."
The U.S. economy should shed its jobless label this year with the creation of about 2.6 million new positions, the White House forecast on Monday.
Last year, the Bush administration was looking for the creation of about 1.7 million jobs. But the economy actually lost 53,000 jobs, bringing the total number of jobs lost since Bush took office to 2.2 million.
"As 2004 begins, America's economy is strong and getting stronger," Bush said in a statement accompanying the report.
In the only other post-war jobless recovery, the slow crawl back from the 1990-91 recession, it took 14 months for the number of employed to get back to where it stood when the recession ended. This time, it is 26 months and counting.