A healthy economy needs to constantly create jobs to replace ones that are being lost. In the recent recession, the problem wasn't just layoffs, but that not enough new jobs were being added.
Even during the depths of the Great Recession, though, many companies were able to generate new jobs.
0:00/2:14Underemployed and looking for work More than 14 million private-sector jobs were created in the 12 months ending March 2009, Kauffman found.
"It's heartening to know that, despite the economic obstacles, entrepreneurs were still finding ways to create jobs, though fewer than in past recessions," said Robert E. Litan, vice president of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation.
Even so, the economy experienced a net loss of 5.7 million jobs between March 2008 and March 2009.
