MILWAUKEE — Although President Joe Biden has honed in on the robust labor force as perhaps the only positive economic metric to compare with the record of Donald Trump, top economic advisers to the former and potential future president released their research confirming that nearly half of all jobs added in the past year are simply government jobs.

During an economic policy forum on the third morning of the Republican National Convention, Stephen Moore and Art Laffer debuted their finding that of the roughly 2.6 million jobs added from May of last year until this year, 782,000 were in the healthcare industry and 617,000 were in government.