I'll also point out that whenever a politician says that such and such number of jobs were created in a given month, they're just plugging a few economic values into an equation and trusting that it's outputting a result that reflects reality rather than actually checking if those jobs exist. It's always been kind of bullshit.
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in reply to @NireBryce's post:
having just learned the specifics of counting unemployment in a class, it seems a bit like unemployment is counted in whatever way best reduces the unemployment statistic
isn't it more like 35% of people unemployed right now according to BLS statistics? at the very least according to their statistics on "working age adults who do not have jobs" which why isn't that just called the unemployment rate
there was a time when having a housewife was baked into the salary and I think that's a big part of why the separation started, but def still there for political reasons.