The latest employment figures show the United States is in the midst of its highest job creation since the 1990s. More than 300,000 private sector jobs were added in November, bringing this year’s total to more than 2.6 million. President Obama welcomed the news on Friday.

President Obama: “It’s been a long road to recovery from the worst economic crisis in generations, and we still have a lot more work to do to make sure that hard-working Americans’ wages are growing faster. But the United States continues to outpace most of the world. Over the last four years, we’ve put more people back to work than Europe, Japan and all other industrialized advanced countries combined. And we’re going to keep at it until every single American who is willing and able to work can find not just any job, but a job that pays a decent wage and allows them to support their families.”