I think the disconnect often comes from various adjustments made for things like seasonality or yearly tracking changes. While the SA numbers showed a large, removing the seasonal adjustment showed a 79k increase in the raw numbers.. This isn't to say they are wrong, just that I don't people really take that into account like the econ numbers do so you get this separation.

Maybe but:

>College graduation statistics indicate that bachelor’s degrees are the most sought-after, with 2.038 million conferred in 2020.

https://educationdata.org/number-of-college-graduates

Just because there are more jobs doesn’t mean that people aren’t hurting or worse off than they were before.

What good are jobs if inflation is carving out the bottom half of the economic ladder? There's a reason it's the #1 political concern, and the reality that the government is making it worse, both by running printers 24/7 and by lying about inflation numbers (the headline figures are complete bogus).

Food inflation is sky high. Most people received a pay cut in the last two years in real numbers.

yeah nothing to do with entry-level summer jobs