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Nate Silver has a piece on this: https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-jobs-data-denialism-wont-fool https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-jobs-data-denialism-wont.
by thisisit 1y ago
Nate Silver has a piece on this:
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-jobs-data-denialism-wont-fool https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-jobs-data-denialism-wont...
The point being that revisions can be huge.
Given the climate created by the TACO-ing over tariffs its not surprising that these numbers are inconsistent.
And Trump keeps rewriting history about the numbers impacting elections. The last number before elections were the Oct numbers released on 1-Nov-24. That was abysmal at 12k jobs. Trump even complained about in his campaign speeches. But never let truth stand in the way of Trump and his supporters.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_11012024.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_11012024.ht...