Just to be clear, the US lost 8.8 million jobs during the great recession and it continued to 2010.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/04/art1full.pdf
Subtracting that 7.6 million 00's growth (going by the article) before it hit still leaves 1.2 million for total US loss. That 5 year article you dug from the grave is highly dubious.