When the May jobs report dropped last Friday, I wrote that the Biden administration was cherrypicking the numbers they liked while ignoring the troubling ones, especially on a substantial rise in unemployment claims. I also predicted (in the link below) that this wouldn’t be the last we would hear about the statistics’ drag on the American economy, which is only made worse by Team Biden’s bad grasp of fostering growth in the private sector–and being straightforward about what’s really happening in the economy.
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Labor Dept.’s May Jobs Report Boasts Jump in Employment, but Downplays Dismal Unemployment Numbers
As a reminder, here’s what the Labor Department report said (via the Hill, with my emphasis):
The U.S. economy added 272,000 jobs in May, and the unemployment rate ticked slightly up to 4 percent, according to new Labor Department data released Friday.
The May jobs…
