Missing from the article, as always, is an analysis of what those jobs are. Are they comparable to the jobs that existed before? Are they lower-paying or higher-paying? What kinds of employers are opening up new jobs? What sectors? How many hours a week? How many unique employers are adding jobs? Are they new companies or existing companies? Etc.

Obviously not all of this data is available or even obtainable. But that one number by itself -- total nonfarm payroll -- is an extremely coarse measurement of the state of the economy, and we need to stop acting like all jobs are created equal. This is precisely what gave us the "false recovery" of the early 2010s. Politicians looked at headline unemployment and said "great, recession over!" meanwhile people were looking at their wallets and wondering when exactly the recession ended.

Edit: As a result of this politician-public misalignment, policy was made assuming that things were "back to normal", allowing the practical effects of the recession to linger for years longer than they needed to. Arguably this is what sowed the seeds for the 2016 election of Donald Trump and the rise of anti-intellectualism across the USA.