Government Plays With Jobs Numbers

By Robin Itzler, From Her Patriots Neighbors Newsletter

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No matter which party is in power, Deep State bureaucracies that run our federal government consistently gaslights the American public. 

Hey, didn’t you write this last week about the inflation numbers?

Speaking of inflation … the Consumer Price Index ROSE in March to 3.5 percent. FOURTH MONTH IN A ROW INCREASE. Thank you, Joe Biden! 

Government gaslighting holds true for the monthly jobs report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). According to BLS, in March, the U.S. economy added 303,000 jobs and left the unemployment rate at 3.8 percent.

Yeah, right. Does this feel like a healthy economy to you?

Of the 303,000 March jobs, 72,000 were healthcare related (i.e., businesses that are connected to the government, i.e., Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, etc.). Of the 303,000 March jobs, 71,000 were added in government.

• The majority of new jobs are part-time.
• For the 12 months ended March 2024, more than 650,000 native-born Americans lost their jobs. 
• For the 12 months ended March 2024, more than 1 million foreign-born workers got jobs. The labor force participation rate has held steady and in March at 62.7 percent. 

Using BLS’ own statistics, that means there are fewer people working now than before the COVID-19 “scamdemic.” 

The BLS monthly jobs report is meaningless and should be placed at the bottom of a bird cage! Eleven out of 12 monthly reports in 2023 were revised down several months after Joey paraded to the podium to talk about the great jobs report. (Maybe they promised him ice cream afterwards.) 

This trend continues into 2024! 

• February’s job report was revised down by 5,000.
• January’s job report was revised down by an astounding 124,000.
• December’s job report was revised down by 43,000.  

How many people in the private sector could continually give their CEO an important report and come back month after month with revisions?  

Of course the propaganda media insists that's all a huge Bidennomic success story.  Well, if you like that "success" story, here are 11 more Bidenomic "success" stories.

Bidenomic "Success" Stories

The executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas released a report that employers in the U.S. announced 90,309 job cuts in March. This was a 7 percent INCREASE in job cuts from February. That is the highest monthly total since January 2023, when there were 102,943 cuts.

President and CEO of Job Creators Network Alfredo Ortiz said of the March jobs report:

"Looking under the hood of today's jobs report shows it isn't the home run that Democrats and the media claim. Approximately, half of all jobs created last month came in unproductive government or quasi-government healthcare sectors. Full-time jobs continue to decline, while part-time jobs are on the rise. The Main Street labor market is far weaker than the topline numbers or the conditions on Wall Street or K Street suggest."

Corn Pop disagrees and says that is a lot of malarkey. Let’s look at some recent Bidenomics successes:

1.  99-Cents Only Store (discount retailer) – Began liquidating and shutting all its 371 stores on April 5.
2.  Aludyne (lightweight solutions) – The Georgia company is letting 193 employees (8 percent) go of its 2,300-employee workforce.
3.  Apple (technology) – Included in its state filing that it will be laying off 614 workers in California. The affected employees worked at eight different facilities in Santa Clara.
4.  Bloomer Chocolate Company (food) – By the end of May, will be closing its factory in Chicago’s Fulton River District, which puts 226 people out of a job.
5.  Lands’ End (retail) – Has laid off 10 percent of its corporate staff.
6.  Lidl (grocery store chain) – Plans to layoff about 200 corporate level employees.
7.  Quaker Oats (food) – The Chicago-based unit of Pepsico since 2001, opened its Danville, Illinois plant in 1969. The company announced the plant would be closing, which means 500+ jobs will be gone.
8.  ShipMonk (eCommerce) – Will lay off 148 of its 600 workers (25 percent reduction) by June 30.
9.  Student Transportation of America (transportation for public and private schools) – The Florida headquartered company has about 5,000 staffers and will say goodbye to 225 of them.
10.  Transunion (credit reporting) – Recently reduced its staff by 640 jobs.
11.  Unilver (consumer goods) – Will be laying off 7,500 workers worldwide.

Read my article,  “99 Reasons I’m in Mourning” about the 99-Cents-Only Store closure."