In order to return employment to pre-recession levels, U.S. now needs to create 12.4 million jobs.
That's 180,000 more than just last month, and that number will only go up as the population continues to grow
It would take 12.5 years to reach pre-recession employment levels assuming the country started creating jobs at the same rate during the best job-growth years of the 2000s.
In other words, this problem will be with the country from some time yet.