CNSNews.com has a legitimately disappointing unemployment report to write about — only 38,000 jobs created in May — but the story on it by Susan Jones continued CNS’ established pattern of obsessing over the labor force unemployment rate.
Jones waits until the 10th paragraph to actually mention something she usually ignores because it doesn’t fit her agenda — that the labor force participation rate is heavily affected by “retirements among the aging baby boom generation.” But then she tries to spin it by saying that “the weak job market has caused other Americans to give up job-hunting in favor of staying home or going back to school.” However, she provides nothing to back up that interpretation.