For all the media brouhaha about the supposed strength of the Biden-Harris administration’s jobs market, NBC’s flagship evening news show didn’t even bother to report on the “worst” jobs report in years released just before Election Day.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Nov. 1 that the U.S. economy embarrassingly added only 12,000 jobs in October—well below the 113,000 jobs prediction by economists. As reported by Fox Business, this figure is “the lowest tally since December 2020.” In addition, private sector payrolls declined 28,000 against a prediction of a 90,000 gain by LSEG economists. If that wasn’t bad enough, the BLS conceded that it overestimated total job growth in the previous two months by a combined total of 112,000. As Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni pointed out when the jobs report was released, “[T]his is…
