What Did Mitt Romney Learn From The Bush Years?

This graph, by Joshua Picker, compares job growth under Bush’s business cycle with job growth under the preceding business cycles. And it gives Bush a handicap: It doesn’t count 2008, when the recession begins. But even with the handicap, the Bush years again perform poorly:

See them? They’re the smaller bars on the right.
Posted on WONKBLOG by Ezra Klein on July 27, 2012 at 1:08 pm