Claim: "Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs."
Fact-check: Lou Greenwald says low-paying jobs seeing most growth in New Jersey
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Caryn Shinske
Date published: 2012-12-16T00:00:00