The vaunted “Meet the Press” staff appears to have messed up the latest jobs figures slightly. On today’s broadcast, they claimed the country had 132.4 million jobs when President Bush took office, but that it now has 131.5 million, for a total loss of 900,000 jobs. In fact, however, the correct numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the country had 132,388,000 jobs when Bush took office and now has 131,567,000 for a total net job loss of 821,000 jobs, which would round to 132.4 million – 131.6 million = 800,000 lost jobs. It’s bizarre that MTP messed this up given that news reports with the correct figure are literally everywhere.