] We lost 437,000 information-services jobs between January
] 2001 and December 2003. That is 80 percent of the number
] we actually added between January 1998 and December 2000.

In other words, the economy has added 109,250 IT jobs since 1998, and 546,250 people to compete for them. This interview is with someone from the AFL-CIO... I don't like her tact on solving the problem, which is essentially violent from a libertarian perspective (use force to take money from rich people, use force to coerce organizations to employ us). However, her understanding of the problem is solid regardless of your political leanings.