After a blip last month in which it was forced to acknowledge reality, CNSNews.com is back to its old pro-Trump bias when reporting on monthly unemployment statistic.
Susan Jones’ main story on November’s jobless numbers was in full rah-rah mode, cheering that “The economy added 228,000 jobs in November and the employment rate stayed at 4.1 percent — a 17-year low.” The inconvenient fact that the number of people out of the labor force hit another record high under Trump didn’t get mentioned until the fourth paragraph. She then emphasized a different cherry-picked number, claiming that the number of people working part-time but desiring a full-time job “was down by 858,000 over the year.”
The only other story was the usual Terry Jeffrey sidebar on manufacturing jobs vs. government jobs, cheering that “Employment in manufacturing in the United States has increased by 189,000 in the year since Donald Trump was elected president” while “employment in the federal government has declined by 3,000 since Trump was elected.” No mention of what it claimed was the “real” employment rate, a staple of CNS reporting under President Obama.