Claim: "Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."
Fact-check: Austan Goolsbee says current recovery beats job creation record of George W. Bush recovery
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-06-06T00:00:00