A decade of employment lost

National employment data over the decade, America's lost decade for jobs. 

In other words, in the last ten years we've borrowed our way into record deficits and what we have to show for it is an anemic private sector that uses the government as a crutch.

Same thing in Massachusetts.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics here, at the end of April, 2000, the Massachusetts workforce was 3,313,400 workers.  April, 10 years later, the workforce stood at 3,184,000, a 4% decline over the decade.

Meanwhile, Government employment rose over the same period from  435,200 to same period 2009 of 438,000, a 1% increase.