CV NEWS FEED // Critics continue to scrutinize the Biden-Harris administration over job statistics its Labor Department released earlier this year that overestimated the number of newly created jobs in the country by hundreds of thousands.
Late last month, the Labor Department released corrected figures, revealing that the administration had previously reported 818,000 (around 30%) more new jobs than there really were.
Some lawmakers are calling for an investigation, arguing that the initial, incorrect report was a deliberate attempt to mislead voters ahead of the 2024 election.
“I think this is another example of election interference,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-KS, told FOX Business in a recent interview. “We need to get the Department of Labor in front of us and say ‘Explain to us why these numbers are so far off.’”
“And they didn’t miss the mark by just a little bit on this jobs report,” Marshall pointed out. “They missed it by 30%. So, those numbers are way off.”
It is “almost statistically impossible to be off by 30%,” Marshall added. “This hasn’t happened in decades. This is one more example why Americans don’t trust the federal government.”
As CatholicVote previously reported, the Labor Department in 2009 “overestimated jobs by 824,000 – a few thousand more than this year.”
According to economist and Heritage Foundation Research Fellow E.J. Antoni, Ph.D., when monthly revisions are taken into consideration, the initial jobs report showed an “incorrect estimate of 1.2 million jobs,” FOX Business’ Dagen McDowell indicated.
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Antoni told McDowell and her co-host Sean Duffy: “Unfortunately, there really seem to be problems with the models and the methodologies that the Labor Department is using to get these estimates.”
“And what’s scary here,” Antoni added, “is the fact that these problems have been evident since the Spring of 2022. And as far as we can tell, nothing has been done to address them.”
FOX Business White House correspondent Edward Lawrence pointed out another occasion when President Joe Biden himself appeared to misrepresent the latest jobs statistics.
During recent remarks in Washington, Biden claimed that his and Harris’ administration created “a record 16 million new jobs.”
“However,” Lawrence noted, in “a post on X over the weekend, the president’s official page got it right in this one post, then went back to misleading Americans three hours later in a second post.”
In the initial September 1 post, Biden’s government X account @POTUS stated that the administration “added over 6 million more” jobs – a figure that is approximately the amount estimated by the Labor Department.
A post by the same account just three hours later purported that the Biden-Harris administration “created nearly 16 million jobs.”
