Employees at the new Apple store in Grand Center Terminal in New York. Most Apple employees work in the company’s retail division.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — There’s no doubt that Apple is doing far better than the U.S. economy as a whole. But that doesn’t mean Steve Jobs had a better jobs record than Barack Obama.
Last night in the Republican’s response to the president’s State of the Union address, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels proclaimed that Apple has created more jobs than President Obama’s job creation program did.
“The late Steve Jobs — what a fitting name he had — created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the President borrowed and blew,” Daniels said.
The only problem with that nice play on the Apple founder’s name is that Daniels’ math just doesn’t add up, no matter how successful and valuable Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) has become.
Not even close.
Apple’s latest filing shows the company had about 60,400 full-time employees and 2,900
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