Opinion: The most important economic number hasn’t gotten enough attention

“Unemployment is at 3.9 percent. Manufacturing jobs have increased by around 800,000 under President Biden. And the clean-energy boom is well underway. (“A nonpartisan business group that advocates for clean energy estimates that 403,000 jobs will be created by the 210 major energy projects announced since the Inflation Reduction Act took effect in mid-2022,” the Associated Press reported recently. “At least $86 billion in investments have been announced, with the biggest job gains in expected in the electric vehicles, battery storage and solar energy sectors.”)”