Matched up against some of the latest stats made available by the Census Bureau , those numbers really do begin to add up . - people who played tackle football in the past year . • 4.4 million jobs have been lost since the recession began in December 2007 , which is larger than the population of the entire San Francisco Bay Area . • 2.6 million jobs have been lost in the past four months , which is like every Presbyterian in America getting the ax in one winter , or about the number of senior citizens in Florida . • 8.6 million people have been forced to work part-time for economic reasons , which is more than the population of New York City , or more than the number of people who try to quit smoking every year .