While the U.S. government's latest employment report showed jobs continuing to bounce back in the restaurant industry in January, the recovery remains incomplete, with the U.S. restaurant sector still down over 1 million jobs compared to pre-pandemic levels.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Colorado dropped from 5.1 percent to 4.8 percent in December 2021 and 8,500 more people joined the labor force last month, according to a
the jobs that were added to the economy. there seems to be a strong uptick in june and july throughout the summer and now look at november, it is i don t know if we have the chart or if we can put it up. simple bar graph but it tells you quite a bit about this miss in november. rachel: it doesn t seem to be telling joe biden a lot. he seems to be getting a different message from that tiny bar in the november. he says this means america is doing great. listen to this. the incredible news that our unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2%. at this point in the year, we re looking at the sharpest one year decline in unemployment ever. simply put, america, america is back to work. and our jobs recovery is going very strong. will: job recovery is going very strong. rachel: he is not going strong. pete: the job recovery is about as strong as his voice.
president biden touting a job recovery exceeding expectations as he hopes to be able to sign his agenda into law and move on from this week s election defeat. our economy is on the move. this morning we learned that in october our economy created 531,000 jobs. well above expectations. we also learned that job growth over the prior two months, august and september, was nearly 250,000 more jobs than previously thought. in total the job creation in the first full nine months of my administration is about 5.6 million new jobs, a record for any new president. so let s discuss now with cnn economics commentator katherine rampell and cnn s senior political analyst ron brownstein. good to see both of you. thank you, thank you for joining. ron, this should be a great day for democrats. it should be a chance to move the agenda forward, turn the