Since the recession started in August of 2007, the U.S. economy has shed 4.4 million jobs, including more than two million in just the last three months. For comparison's sake, the growing army of job losses for Americans is larger than the population of New Zealand, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico.
A longer list of countries with fewer citizens than America has jobless is below (via the CIA World Factbook)
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Moldova | 4,320,748 | July 2009 est. |
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Costa Rica | 4,253,877 | July 2009 est. |
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New Zealand | 4,213,418 | July 2009 est. |
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Ireland | 4,203,200 | July 2009 est. |
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Lebanon | 4,017,095 | July 2009 est. |
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Congo, Republic of the | 4,012,809 | July 2009 est. |
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Puerto Rico | 3,971,020 | July 2009 est. |
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Albania | 3,639,453 | July 2009 est. |
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Lithuania | 3,555,179 | July 2009 est. |
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Uruguay | 3,494,382 | July 2009 est. |
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Liberia | 3,441,790 | July 2009 est. |
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Oman | 3,418,085 | July 2009 est. |
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Panama | 3,360,474 | July 2009 est. |
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Larry of CA 1:52PM March 06, 2009
joe sixpak 12:53PM March 06, 2009