While 32,000 jobs added is anemic, at least it's a gain. And the unemployment rate might have been fudged, but at least it's down.
Neither of these things is true in the IT sector. Where Bereau of Labor statistics show that the unmployment rate is double what it was three years ago and the number of jobs is down by another 160,000.
Information Week has the scoop on the problem, but it's just the tip of the iceberg.
The Bush administration has combined two policies: a disdain for science, and a disregard for whether or not jobs stay in the US. In doing so, they've brought the US the first taste of something that other countries have fretted over for decades.
A brain drain.
It's long been a joke that the United States exports nothing but movies, but the truth is that the US continues to win more Nobel Prizes in the sciences than any other nation, and we have long exported the pure knowledge that makes our modern world work.
If the US fails to hold as a academic and technological center, a lot more than jobs are at stake.
