Dick McDonald: Exclusive: We Need 18 Million New Jobs – To Recover

"My back-of-the-envelope calculation says that we need to add around 18 million jobs over the next five years, or 300,000 jobs a month. This puts last week’s employment report, which showed job losses of 'only' 11,000 in November, in perspective. It was basically a terrible report, which was reported as good news only because we’ve been down so long that it looks like up to the financial press."