Our promise the world “a better economy with more jobs than we can count” President, Joe Biden attributed Covid-19 as the scapegoat to the disappointing September jobs report. Yet he claims that we shouldn’t focus too much on the numbers because job recovery is in the near future.
Biden claims that because of the week the survey was taken, it gave false testimony to true job counts.
“Today’s report is based on a survey that was taken during the week of September 13. Not today, September the 13th — when Covid cases were average more than 150,000 per day,” Biden said. “Since then, we’ve seen the daily cases fall by more than one-third and they’re continuing to trend down, and we’re continuing to make progress.”
President Biden claims that due to the troubling signs of Covid-19 still disrupting the economy, the jobs report indicates US employers added only 194,000 jobs in September.
This marked the second-straight month in which the economy added far fewer jobs than expected. Jobs growth slowed exponentially in August.
The unemployment rate declined to 4.8% in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, down from 5.2% in August. Joblessness declined across the board, with the Black unemployment rate falling the most of any group — to 7.9% from 8.8% in August.
Biden tried to put the job report statistics in better light and give it a positive spin. Biden said, “Today’s report has the unemployment rate down to 4.8%, a significant improvement from when I took office and a sign that our recovery is moving forward even in the face of a Covid pandemic.”
He shrugged off citizen’s concerns about the jobs numbers not meeting requirements.
“Right now, things in Washington, as you all know, are awfully noisy. Turn on the news and every conversation is a confrontation. Every disagreement is a crisis. But when you take a step back and look at what’s happening, we’re actually making real progress,” Biden said. “Maybe it doesn’t seem fast enough. I’d like to see it faster and we’re going to make it faster. Maybe it doesn’t appear dramatic enough. … We’re making consistent and steady progress, though.”
Many are backing President Biden, during this time of impending job decline, such as Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
“This is not all doom and gloom here today. Certainly, we know, I would love to be on this show saying we added 3 million jobs to the economy and now we can go on to something else, but unfortunately we’re still — we’re not there yet,” he conceded.
President Biden and many others are stating that vaccinated areas, rather than non-vaccinated, are more promising when it comes to job numbers increasing once again.
The White House released a report on Thursday highlighting support for vaccine requirements across business and labor communities.
The report also details the positive economic effects among communities with high vaccination rates, including that “small business employee hours grew faster and stayed higher during the rise of the Delta variant in the states that have higher working-age vaccination rates, versus states with lower vaccination rates.”
While Biden is claiming that job numbers are looking promising and we are making historical progress, Republicans are full out disgruntled with his lack of realistic insight.
“It should be surging,” Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.), the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, said of the economic recovery on a call with reporters. Brady blamed Biden’s proposal for tax increases and spending efforts, including the $1.9 trillion stimulus the GOP unanimously opposed, as the reason that recovery in his view has slowed. He added that Biden’s “policies are clearly holding America back economically.”
Roughly 8 million Americans are remaining without jobs. Yet President Biden is standing before us saying otherwise.
“No other major economy in the world is growing as fast as ours,” Biden said while in Delaware. “No other major economy is gaining jobs as quickly as ours.”
However, April showed particularly sluggish jobs growth. Employment in construction fell as that industry struggled with high lumber prices and uncertainty related to supply chain bottlenecks that have plagued the economy. The United States is not expected to return to its pre-pandemic employment levels for more than a year at the current rate of growth.
“As we emerge from the virus, our economy should be booming, but today’s lackluster jobs report shows President Biden’s policies have stalled our recovery,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) wrote on Twitter. “Washington needs to stop paying people NOT to work. Bidenomics is bad for America.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) slammed the policy in an op-ed Friday, lauding Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) for cutting off the benefits but blaming the policy for hurting business’s ability to hire new workers.
“Much of the reason has to do with the Biden administration’s unemployment benefits, which are so massive that they’re incentivizing would-be workers to stay home instead of looking for jobs,” he wrote in the Tampa Bay Times. “Even with vaccination rates soaring and COVID-19 case counts plummeting, the administration’s policies are now, for millions, precluding getting back to normal.”
As citizens are listening to both sides of the argument, they stand torn. Will the economy really recover as President Biden claims?
