They keep calling it a jobless recovery. They should start calling it a recovery-less recovery.
In the humpty dumpty world of US politics, words mean whatever the speaker asserts. By redefining "recovery," they could likely make an economic depression into a recovery - "we aren't accelerating the freefall anymore = recovery." See too, "jobs preserved," which facilitates counting the same fact an infinite number of times, to whatever degree necessary to claim success.
Sad thing is, a substantial fraction of the public does NOT see through the baloney.