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A Guide to Trumpspeak

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Trump’s Job Report Math

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High Jobs Numbers

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Business & Economy

The July Jobs Report: Unemployment Hits Historic Low

Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research Aug 7, 2023 The July jobs report was largely positive: low unemployment levels, high job creation, and consistent GDP growth. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Unemployment Hits 49-Year Low as U.S. Employers Step Up Hiring

CHRISTOPHER RUGABER / The Associated Press May 3, 2019 The numbers suggest fewer concerns about sustaining economic growth as the recovery from the Great Recession nears the decade mark. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

U.S. Employers Add Stellar 312,000 Jobs in December

JOSH BOAK / The Associated Press Jan 4, 2019 The Labor Department also notes that average hourly pay has improved 3.2 percent from a year ago. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Business Economists Suggest the U.S. Could Face a Recession in 2020

Ilana Novick Jun 4, 2018 A rosy jobs report doesn’t tell the whole story. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Paychecks Shrink Even as U.S. Economy Adds Jobs

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 7, 2016 U.S. industry added 242,000 jobs in February—but the major gains were in low-wage industries, and average hourly earnings dropped 3 cents. And unemployment rates remained far higher for minorities than for whites. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

April Jobs Report: The Wage Picture Is Bleak and ‘We’re Still Millions of Jobs in the Hole’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 11, 2015 Yes, all of the U.S. jobs lost to the Great Recession were recovered by mid-2014. But “we didn’t manage to create enough new jobs to satisfy the shortfall” in positions that would have been made “had the economy kept chugging along at a reasonably normal pace,” writes Suzanne McGee at The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Don’t Be Fooled by the October Unemployment Numbers

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 7, 2014 Despite 9 million Americans remaining out of work, economists hailed the drop of the U.S. unemployment rate to its lowest level since 2008 on Friday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Where’s the Gratitude?

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Oct 7, 2014 President Obama is clearly frustrated that having inherited an economy that was at death's door, he is getting remarkably little credit for getting it back on its feet. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Friday’s Jobs Report and the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon Debacle

Robert Reich / Truthdig Apr 5, 2014 What does the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon decision this week have to do with Friday's jobs report, showing 192,000 new jobs for March? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )