Between 1979 and 2004, real gross domestic product (GDP) per person in the United States increased about 60 percent. This report asks how well the U.S. economy has done translating this economic growth into good jobs.

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Appendix T. The data used for 2004 in this analysis come directly from the 2005 March CPS, coded to match the Unicon procedure.

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How Good is the Economy at Creating Good Jobs? ! 13 Figure 1: Share of good jobs (%),

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In the second and fourth columns of Table 4, the row marked “Total (actual)” shows the average share of good jobs across all education-and-age categories. As in Table 1, the average for the overall population was 24.6 percent in 1979 and 25.2 percent in

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