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Shouldn’t the Y-axis be “job gain”? Negative job loss would be a good thing, right?
Well spotted MolecularFossils, an incorrect double negative, axis title + values.
FYI the original is here:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/recoveryanniversary/?source=feature
I had the same exact question!
Rachel Maddow called this the “Bikini graph”.
Technically it’s more of a “Panties graph”, but it hardly seems worth arguing about.