jobs created under this administration, but also recognize the challenge, the difficulty, that still exist for american families. and he told, i thought, a story to people could relate to as a young man sitting at the dinner table with his parents, as they talked about how they were going to afford the next month s rent, or food. a lot of people can relate to that conversation. so he did both of those things that he needs to do. to take credit for the good stuff, the progress, but also to make sure that people who are still struggling out there understand they have a president who has not forgotten about them. who is going to keep working to make things better for them. stephanie, two quarters of negative growth traditionally means recession. half 1 million jobs in a month, traditionally means, not a recession. are we in a recession? mandy, there are very difficult to call in realtime, we usually don t know we are in
week from today. it will cap off a string of recent triumphs for joe biden and the democrats. just in the past week, we saw the killing of al-qaeda leader alma zawahiri, a major legislative achievement with the chips, bill investing billions and semi conductive manufacturing and scientific research, a huge win for abortion rights in kansas, and these great jobs numbers today. so, should the white house, should democrats, dare to believe that they can make it through the november midterms with a better outcome than expected? joining me now is stephanie hilton, a chief economist for the central banking economy as well as an economic adviser to bernie sanders in 2016 in 2020 presidential campaigns, julian castro, former secretary of housing and urban development under president obama. thank you both. stephanie, let me start with you, put these jobs numbers in context. how good are they, how big are they? they are huge, they
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