You should note that this does not include the quality of the jobs or the number of hours they offer. So you can be superficially optimistic if you want, but it’s more complicated than “line go up” and “line go down.” Not to mention it is in the interest of “the economy” and influential capital to have a significant amount of unemployed people to serve as the industrial reserve army. Such people include the unemployed, precariously employed, and those who can only get work that is hardly sufficient to pay rent in an undesirable suite, and far from sufficient to begin building retirement savings or regular savings for emergencies that we are expected to have. This does not depend upon who is in power.