...BEFORE boasting about "his" economic performance. Basically, employment HAS NOT recovered from pre-pandemic levels (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf):

"In January, both the labor force participation rate, at 62.4 percent, and the employment-population
ratio, at 60.2 percent, were unchanged after removing the effects of the annual adjustments to the
population controls. These measures have shown little net change since early 2022 and remain below
their pre-pandemic February 2020 levels (63.3 percent and 61.1 percent, respectively). (See table A-1.
For additional information about the effects of the population adjustments, see table C.) "

And a significant part of the new jobs are people who worked SECOND jobs in order to make ends meet.

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