WSJ Article: Bain created 1,300 jobs under Romney, not 100,000.
Tally of Job Creation By Bain Proves Vexing
How many jobs did Mitt Romney help create at Bain Capital ?
By his count, and that of his presidential campaign, the answer is more than 100,000. The calculation comes primarily from counting every position added until now at four successful investments, including Staples Inc. and Sports Authority Inc., by the private-equity firm Mr. Romney founded.
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Assigning jobs numbers to private-equity firms has been a fairly rare exercise among researchers, though several academics have studied the topic in the past few years to gauge the economic impact of the industry.
As a result, there is no widely accepted accounting measure. Some academic experts said the Romney campaign's 100,000-jobs count is flawed, because it gives Bain all the credit, even though other investors also played a role in the four key companies, and includes jobs added long after Mr. Romney left Bain in 1999.
"I don't think that an investor should get credit for the jobs created beyond the ones where an investor has a position in the company," said John M. Abowd, a labor economist at Cornell University who donated to the Obama 2012 campaign.
.He suggests yet another way: Give Mr. Romney and Bain credit for a share of jobs created proportional to Bain's ownership stake in its investments at the time. Because Bain held minority stakes in all four firms, and sold out years ago, that method would produce a far lower total—less than 1,500.
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Apparently according to this-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125153684
he was still there AFTER 1999. How many more were "outsourced" or "downsized" between 1999 and (at least) 2001? 
One wonders about this seemingly arbitrary cut-off...? He ran for governor in 2002 which would make the 2001 year more plausible if you're going to lie.
