He's not wrong, though.
Some economic indicators, most notably GDP and stock prices, have recovered beyond their pre-recession levels, while others (such as unemployment and wages*), haven't. Rich people earn their income largely from capital gains, everyone else gets it from wages and salaries, so with the recovery being so uneven, you really could make a pretty solid case that people outside of the top of the economic distribution really aren't as well of as they were before the crash.
*It's been a few months since I looked at the data for wages. They might have returned to pre-recession levels in the meantime, but I doubt it and I don't care enough to find out.