Laboring for job loss. Bush is the first president since Herbert Hoover to actually lose jobs during his term. (Typically, the economy creates 8 million jobs in four years.) The economy has 913,000 fewer jobs today than when Bush took office in 2001. Tax cuts for the rich [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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