Birdwatch Note Rating
2022-12-04 16:56:30 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7ED2BC6914D80B477C3DC83E7761F573C368E7972FB2A8649D039E8C07BEE247
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Original Note:
Accurate: +10.5M Jobs (750k manufacturing) since 1/2021. Also accurate: Only +1.4M jobs (150k manufacturing) since 1/2020. How is that possible? Answer: 22M jobs lost in Mar & Apr of 2020 (COVID). It took until 4/2022 to return to pre-COVID employment numbers. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001 & https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES3000000001.
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