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Trump Jr.’s Pants-on-Fire Allegation of Manipulated Jobs Numbers

Tuesday, July 26, 2016 8:32

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Jeff Frankel at Econbrowser:

Trump Jr.’s Pants-on-Fire Allegation of Manipulated Jobs Numbers: When interviewed about the unemployment numbers, which have fallen steadily since 2010, Donald Trump Jr., replied “These are artificial numbers. These are numbers that are massaged to make the existing economy look good, to make this administration look good when, in fact, it’s a total disaster.” PolitiFact asked a variety of experts about the quote. Their bottom line: the quote from the younger Trump was a “Pants on Fire” lie. The truth is that presidents don’t and can’t manipulate the jobs numbers. No White House has even tried — at least not since Richard Nixon made a heavy-handed attempt in 1971 to interfere with BLS staffing. After that, extra firewalls were put in place.

Here is my own full response to PolitiFact’s question regarding the Trump claim…

Source: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2016/07/trump-jrs-pants-on-fire-allegation-of-manipulated-jobs-numbers.html

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