As she has the past few months under the Trump presidency — in contrast to the continuously negative spin she used during President Obama — CNSNews.com reporter Susan Jones emphasizes the positive news about unemployment statistics. Her May 5 article on April’s numbers touted how “The number of employed Americans set a third straight monthly record in April, increasing by 156,000 to 153,156,000; and the nation’s unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a point to 4.4 percent.” While Jones did concede in the second paragraph that more people also left the workforce last month, she then huffed: “The numbers are important: People who are employed have Social Security and other payroll taxes deducted from their paychecks, and those taxes help to support many other people who do not work for various reasons and who may receive taxpayer-funded entitlements or benefits.
By contrast, Jones’ article on September unemployment numbers (under Obama) led with the number of people not in the workforce — which, it so happens, was lower than it was in April.
As before, CNS editor in chief Terry Jeffrey added an article about how a few thousand manufacturing jobs were added while also whining that jobs in government were also added.
AWOL again, as has been the case under the Trump administration, are CNS’ Obama-era staples on high black unemployment and the “real” unemployment rate.