As she did last month, CNSNews.com reporter Susan Jones’ lead story on the new unemployment numbers touts the record number of people in the workforce. By contrast, Jones’ unemployment reports under a Democratic president focused on how many people were not in the workforce.
Another thing Jones is doing under Trump that she largely failed to do under President Obama: explain why the workforce participation rate is so low.
This is all to cover up the fact that only 98,000 jobs were created in March, which she didn’t get around to mentioning until the fourth paragraph of her article and which even she had to concede was a disappointing number.
Jones also grumbled that “The Democrat Party [sic] is giving Donald Trump no credit for the good news in Friday’s jobs report,” sneering that “The DNC is offended that Trump, a successful job-creator himself, has taken credit for tens of thousands of jobs saved or created on his watch.” Jones doesn’t mention that Trump played no role in creating most of those jobs.
The only sidebar, again, is CNS editor in chief Terry Jeffrey touting the creation of more manufacturing jobs while bemoaning that more government jobs were created as well. Unlike his articles in the Obama era, though, the number of government jobs didn’t make the headline.
AWOL again is CNS managing editor Michael W. Chapman, whose job during the Obama era was to tell us the “real” unemployment rate and highlight the number of unemployed blacks.