Jobs and Job creators

Job creation in 2011 stacks up favorably to job creation since 2001. From ThinkProgress:

• Since the last SOTU, the economy has created 1.9 million private sector jobs. 
• Private sector job creation under Obama in 2011 was larger than seven out of the eight years Bush was president. 

Overpaid?

While some politicians argue public sector employees are overpaid, a new study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates the opposite. Conservatives challenge the BLS conclusions with a Heritage Foundation study. Progressive blog ThinkProgress counters with a Project on Government Oversight (POGO) report which criticizes the Heritage Foundation methodology.

Outsourced

The Wall Street Journal reports a remarkable shift in jobs occurred in the last decade. Multinationals cut

their work forces in the U.S. by 2.9 million during the 2000s while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million, new data from the U.S. Commerce Department show. That's a big switch from the 1990s, when they added jobs everywhere: 4.4 million in the U.S. and 2.7 million abroad.

Thinkprogress has a distinctly sinister spin on the matter.