"And that would be in a year in which we are expecting employment losses."

The office employs several hundred civil servants and has helped to offset employment losses from the base closure.

In the first two months of the year, employment losses totaled 13,000.

Now, in a recession, the retail, restaurant and hotel industries that hired many welfare recipients are those with the most employment losses.

Most of the department store chains were liquidated with large economic and employment losses.

(The actual employment loss since Mr. Bush took office is 2.4 million jobs.)

The rapid employment losses - almost a million jobs since the attacks - have brought hardship for many.

And the end of employment losses.

Gross Domestic Product fell some $5.8 billion and employment losses exceeded 41,000 jobs for 2001 and 2002.

There is some employment loss, though it's not huge.