Nearly 6 months, and no improvement

We are given some happy news about jobs, but hold on a minute.  I pulled up this chart that shows that there are about the same number of employed people in the workforce today as there was in June.




It so happens that I posted in July that there still weren't as many people working as there were during the peak of the Bush years in January 2008.  Some recovery, eh?  Back then, it was 146 million employed, today it is 144 million.  It was 144 million back in June.  Nothing's happening, folks.