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That may be true of the monthly jobs report numbers (don't remember how they work), but if you need to know then it's not an issue because there's alternatives.

Here's reports for all these that don't have those issues, as they just come from surveys.

> It reports only those actively looking for a job or employed, so it leaves out people who simply aren’t participating in the labor market anymore because they can’t find one.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

This simply asks "do you have a job", and it's up to the people responding to decide if being an Uber driver is a job.

> Average Americans feel the job market today is terrible and largely does not look at part time and near minimum wage work roles growing as a positive.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12032196 - % of workers part time because they couldn't find anything better

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0203127200A - % of workers at federal minimum wage

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620 - % people with multiple jobs

All look healthy right now. (Obviously there's a lot more people at the state minimum wage.)

> The jobs report doesn’t disaggregate higher paying jobs from lower ones

That's in FRED somewhere, but https://realtimeinequality.org is an easier way to view it.

Btw, I think focusing on "jobs" isn't the best thing to look at - the poorest people in a country will always be children and the elderly, and hopefully we don't want them to get jobs.

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