Ranking Member Mike Lee on January Jobs Report

WASHINGTON—Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, made the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 467,000 jobs in January:

“Nearly three million Americans have still not returned to work, and at this point in the recovery, we have much more than the pandemic to blame. Thanks to runaway spending in Congress, inflation is handing most Americans a pay cut, and falling real wages have discouraged many from returning to work. The threat of vaccine mandates has caused more employers to separate the unvaccinated from their livelihoods.

“Restraint can do more for our economic recovery than anything else in the government’s power. Empowering our families, workers, businesses, and communities will be necessary to keep America on the path to recovery.”

The Joint Economic Committee is Congress’s bicameral economic research center and home of the Social Capital Project, led by Ranking Member Mike Lee.

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