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(10,864 posts)comparing January 2017 to January 2021. Or February 2017 to Feburary 2021.
# Nonfarm Employment (Establishment Survey, in thousands)
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001
YEAR JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH YADA
2016 143205 143417 143654 143851 143892 144150 144521 144664 144953 145071 145201 145415
2017 145628 145818 145960 146165 146388 146585 146768 146913 147012 147153 147353 147529
2018 147662 148064 148289 148468 148801 148984 149050 149269 149326 149471 149573 149821
2019 150100 150124 150348 150636 150713 150843 150921 151081 151244 151337 151589 151789
2020 152128 152504 151006 130513 133155 137660 139048 140713 141632 142279 142612 142497
2021 143017 143727 144431 144694 145141 145698 146387 146904 147328 148005 148652 149240
2022 149744 150458 150856 151224 151610 152008(P) 152536(P)
Monthly changes, in thousands
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
Year Jan Feb Mar yada
2016 108 212 237 197 41 258 371 143 289 118 130 214
2017 213 190 142 205 223 197 183 145 99 141 200 176
2018 133 402 225 179 333 183 66 219 57 145 102 248
2019 279 24 224 288 77 130 78 160 163 93 252 200
2020 339 376 -1498 -20493 2642 4505 1388 1665 919 647 333 -115
2021 520 710 704 263 447 557 689 517 424 677 647 588
2022 504 714 398 368 386 398(P) 528(P)
Meaning every Biden month has been better than Slobfather's entire presidency, as Biden hasn't had a negative month yet.