Oh, I see that article was using February 2020 as the baseline, which makes no sense if you're talking about jobs created as part of the recovery. Public sector jobs rise predictably year to year at about the same rate as economic growth, while private sector jobs ebb and flow. So if you take numbers right before a crisis and then compare them to the point of recovery, obviously virtually all the growth is going to be in the public sector. The exact same thing happened in 2008-2010.
But just for comparison, lazy Canada reached its February 2020 private sector jobs level in February 2022. The United States didn't get there until June 2022.
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