Rick Scott questions job creation figures after downward revisions

Florida's junior senator joins forces with Republican colleagues to get answers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported lower employment figures than originally reported.

US Senator. Rick Scott joined the US Senators. Marsha Blackburn, Ted Budd, Roger Marshall And Markwayne Mullin in a letter to the acting Minister of Labour Julia Su to find out why the Joe Biden The government failed to properly assess changes in labor force participation.

“For example, in recent months the American people have witnessed a monthly downward revision of 97,000 for January 2024, an overall downward revision of 300,000 in the BLS's 2023 annual benchmark review, and most recently an overall downward revision of 818,000 for jobs created in the 12-month period ending March 2024. This revision to the 2024 benchmark review is 28 percent below the original BLS estimate of 2.9 million jobs created,” the Republican senators note.

Even though even conservatives acknowledge that the BLS revises forecasts regularly — also under the Donald Trump The senators point out that the efforts of the White House and its allies in the press corps are particularly malicious – despite the recent reduction in government jobs, which reduced its original plan by 501,000 positions in 2019.

“These discrepancies, which represent jobs that the Biden(Kamala) Harris The government claimed it created them when they simply do not exist, and they were portrayed as signs of economic dynamism and positive job creation. There have been several instances in the last year where news outlets reported that the labor market was “strong,” “red hot,” or “boiling,” to name a few examples. The news outlets took the original BLS data at face value and concluded that the labor market was strong.”

Republicans argue that the “misleading numbers leave the public with a false impression and raise doubts about the accuracy and legitimacy of the FBI.”

“Had news reporters and agencies received the revised employment numbers first each month, reporting and public perception of the labor market might have changed. Given the Bureau's dismal record over the past two years, it's time for the BLS to accurately assess labor force participation from the start and acknowledge the fact that the number of Americans working full-time declined by 510,000 from July 2023 to July 2024.”

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