Job growth revised down by 911,000 through March, signaling economy on shakier footing than realized

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  1. 50% less than previously estimated… there’s really no justification for how bad BLS have done. Like BLS needs to overhaul its system, how they estimate economic data this really is unacceptable. Not saying that Trump is helping rn but like cmon. So the economic statistics were not reliable under Biden and people’s economic day to day experience was more accurate. Trump job growth will only be worse

  2. Also — we’ll be getting the admin’s much needed spin on the report!

    > Investors were digging into revised labor-market data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the 12 months through March, which showed a preliminary estimated revision of -911,000 (-0.6 percent). **The White House is preparing a report laying out alleged shortcomings in BLS data, according to [people familiar with the matter](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/bureau-labor-statistics-report-trump-administration-ef09edb1).**

    > The administration is considering publishing the study, written by the Council of Economic Advisers, in the coming weeks, according to these people.

    [White House Prepares Report Critical of Statistics Agency | WSJ](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/bureau-labor-statistics-report-trump-administration-ef09edb1)

    https://archive.ph/w8wKr

  3. GreatnessToTheMoon on

    So much for all those “greatest economy ever” articles written by the media lol

    Guess we can stop the “Trump only won because of racism and misogyny” posts as well

  4. While these revisions do match anecdotally to how the job market has felt to me in the last year, I’m still suspicious since Trump is politicizing the BLS and one way to make him look better is to make Biden’s numbers worse so he can say he inherited a bad situation. That’s certainly is how this report is going to be used by the right.

    Are there any other independent indicators that would support this giant revision?

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