Economists estimate that there are approximately 137 million jobs in the United States. How are they distributed?  It’s clear that over the past decades America has moved from a focus on goods production to a largely service industry.  Planet Money has charted this detail from U.S. government’s monthly jobs report to illustrate the size (in millions of jobs) of industries across the employment spectrum.  It’s a great graph that helps to make a daunting amount of information a bit easier to put in perspective.  For the full article, click here.

 

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