If they are right, the economy really created at least 120,000 jobs last month.

In the last year, the local economy has created only a handful of jobs.

Last month, the economy created only a thousand new jobs.

Nor is anyone saying that the economy will create a job for every older worker who needs one.

In the 1973-88 period, meanwhile, the American economy created some 30 million jobs overall.

To put this in perspective: our economy only created 18,000 jobs last month.

On its own, the economy might not have created any jobs.

At the same time, a strong economy has created many job opportunities.

Simply to keep unemployment at the present 11.8 percent level, the economy must create 628,000 jobs this year.

At home, the economy of the oil business had created the need for his father to return to California.