Jobs in New York City

1969

• New York City private sector jobs = 3.2 million
• total city population = 7.9 million

2008

• New York City private sector jobs = 3.1 million
• total city population = 8.3 million

Over roughly forty years, the city has gained four hundred thousand residents and lost one hundred thousand jobs.

And now the widely-admitted 'engine of New York's economy' is collapsing. Any guesses how the trend will go?