Using that standard, Seasonally Adjusted/Total Nonfarm - the Number of Employed reached a peak in June 2000 at 4,691,500. In December 2002 the Number of Employed had fallen to 4,469,400 or 222,100 jobs lost.  Since Dec. 2002 the Number of Employed has fallen by another 315,800 (About 175,000 in Granholm's first term with a Republican controlled House and Senate and about another 140,000 during her second term with Dems controlling the House and Repubs controlling the Senate).  

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