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In reply to the discussion: All the job growth from 2018 to 2019 from the US Labor Departmet was false government propaganda [View all]PatrickforO
(14,571 posts)I really, REALLY hate to say this, but this particular anomaly is not Trump's fault, personally.
However, the fault DOES lie with the Republicans. You'll recall back in '14 when Obama was still in office, the Republicans absolutely would not pass any spending measure unless there was a corresponding cut. 'Budget neutral,' remember?
In 2014, Congress passed a budget that put substantial cuts on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, because hey, who needs data, right? So, BLS took back what the states had been doing and retooled the surveys so they could do it centrally. Unfortunately, the initial estimates were much less accurate than the estimates under the former methodology. This meant that both surveys used to calculate net jobs added and the unemployment rate yielded less accurate preliminary results, so the gap between the preliminary estimate and the final (adjusted) estimate was (and will continue to be) wider.
The Republican party is squarely at fault for this, but alas, not Trump personally.