Take Your Government Job and Shove It

Take Your Government Job and Shove It: Under Joe Biden, the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report numbers keep trending downwards; the impactful reports reflect the health of our economy, and hold great sway with the Fed, business community, and bond and stock markets.  Given their pervasive influence on economic sentiment and expectations, you’d think the data collectors and compilers would bother to be somewhat punctilious.  Instead, they overstated job creation by a whopping 439,000 in 2023.