re: #351 lawhawk

Do you count the draft as a job? Being conscripted into a military removes people from the workforce. Workforce gets expanded by women entering workforce to replace men fighting in the military.

But even as the Times noted, the total is the highest since the data started to be kept in 1939. Since 1939 is before 1942, we know the answer. More jobs created by Biden.

If they’re getting a paycheck, it’s a job. Does Bureau of Labor Statistics count them? I’m not sure.

At the height of the war, we had 15 million troops in uniform, on battlefields. Their clothes, parachutes, jeeps, guns, ammo, food, all came from private-sector companies (under federal contract).