There are more jobs than ever before in US history

This is it, the long-awaited jobs report at which we find out that more Americans are employed than were before the recession started:

We did it! In May 2014, the US finally recovered all the jobs lost during the Great Recession. pic.twitter.com/eSRtYVQb7U

— Matt Phillips (@MatthewPhillips) June 6, 2014

Of course given population growth this is very much defining success down.

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