A total of 520,000 such jobs have disappeared since then.

Here are the numbers: a total of 278,000 jobs were added and 315,000 people gave up looking.

Houston, for example, has added a total of roughly 20,000 industrial jobs the last three years.

A total of 17,000 jobs will be cut in the process.

Between 1969 and 1971, by comparison, the city lost a total of 186,000 jobs.

- Philadelphia lost a total of 140,000 jobs and 160,000 residents during the 1970s.

A net total of only 8,000 jobs were created during that period, according to Federal labor figures.

Within a week, a total of 239 jobs were lost.

The move dislocated a total of 6,000 jobs over this period.

"There were a total of six jobs with no addresses, only a job description and the town," he added.