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This article has a graph that answers that question. We have 5.3% fewer jobs than we had when the recession stared in December, 2007. If we add 216,000 jobs per month as we did in March, we will replace the jobs lost by January, 2014. If we add 472,000 jobs per month, which was the best growth month since 2000, the lost jobs will be replaced by July 2012.
This analysis does not include the number of young people entering the labor force each month. Around 100,000 workers enter the labor force each month. We would need to include this in our analysis to determine when we would be at full-employment.
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