 So the fact is, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added back all the jobs from the pandemic and created 6.2 million jobs. President Biden skips over the fact that the pandemic shut down businesses, schools, manufacturing, decimated the travel industry. When things opened up, those were not new jobs being created, but old ones coming back. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says the economy added back all the manufacturing jobs from the pandemic and created 185,000 manufacturing jobs.