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No, you can't look at a simple statistic like that and draw broad conclusions.

Yes, about 200k jobs are added per month. The question you have to ask yourself, the question that actually matters, is this: what kinds of jobs are those? Are we talking about well-paying white collar jobs with benefits that turn into stable careers, or temporary, low-paying jobs with no benefits that typically represent underemployment?



The vast majority of the jobs being added are full time positions.




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