Laboring

2,000
Number of employees Facebook has worldwide

29,000
Number of employees Google has worldwide

200,000
Number of employees General Motors has worldwide

65
One estimate of the percentage of America’s scientists and engineers employed in the manufacturing industry

17 million
Minimum number of jobs the United States needs to create in the next decade to recover from the recession and keep pace with population growth

40 million
Number of self-employed people in the United States (31 percent of the workforce)

9

Percent drop in the number of small businesses offering health insurance coverage from 2000 to 2009

2

Dollars, out of every 3 dollars, in new income between 2002 and 2007 that went to the top 1 percent of Americans

Sources: New York Times; Bloomberg BusinessWeek; The Atlantic