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Wikipedia May 11, 2026 at 07:45 AM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party

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Claim
159,053
Correction

This payroll total is outdated. After BLS benchmark revisions, the BLS-sourced series shows total nonfarm employment at 158,268 thousand in January 2025, not 159,053 thousand.

Full reasoning

This table says it uses Bureau of Labor Statistics data, but BLS later benchmark-revised the national CES employment series.

BLS states that the March 2025 benchmark revisions, published in February 2026, revised all seasonally adjusted CES series from January 2021 through December 2025. In the BLS-sourced PAYEMS series, the revised level for January 2025 is 158,268 (thousand), not 159,053.

So the Biden row’s ending nonfarm-employment level is no longer correct under the current BLS data series.

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Claim
143,443
Correction

This starting payroll figure is also outdated. Revised BLS payroll data put total nonfarm employment at 142,863 thousand in January 2021, not 143,443 thousand.

Full reasoning

The Biden employment row is based on older CES numbers. BLS later benchmark-revised the seasonally adjusted national payroll series back through January 2021.

In the current BLS-sourced PAYEMS data, January 2021 total nonfarm employment is 142,863 (thousand). The article lists 143,443, which is not the revised BLS value.

Because the starting level is wrong, any growth rate derived from that row is also affected.

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