After a month in which she had to concede that the unemployment numbers weren’t as good as she’d prefer for her beloved President Trump, CNSNews.com’s Susan Jones was back to cheerleadering over the June jobless figures:
The U.S. economy added 220,000 jobs in June, the best showing since February and well above analysts’ expectations of 174,000.
The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics also said the number of employed Americans — which set records in February, March and April — set another record in June, at 153,168,000 employed.
And the number of Americans not in the labor force — after four straight monthly gains – dropped a bit to 94,813,000.
Remember, during the Obama years Jones would be leading with the low labor force participation rate and burying any positive numbers (as well as the fact that students and retired baby boomers make up a significant percentage of people not in the labor force).
As usual, Jones’ article was accompanied by a Terry Jeffrey article fretting over government jobs being created at a faster rate than manufacturing jobs. Also as usual, the Obama-era staples about racial disparities in unemployment and the “real unemployment rate” are missing, as they have been since Trump took office.