{"id":58824,"date":"2025-09-05T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58824"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:37:42","slug":"what-now-mr-potus-with-latest-job-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58824","title":{"rendered":"What now, Mr. POTUS, with latest job figures?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Donald J. Trump went utterly ape-dookey over Bureau of Labor Stats figures a month ago that showed the U.S. added 77,000 jobs in July. What did he do? He fired the head of the BLS.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>He said the former bean counter couldn&#8217;t be trusted to produce good numbers. So he brought in his own guy. What happened in August? The non-farm job payrolls added just 22,000 jobs during the month.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The mercurial charlatan who sits in the Oval Office might offer an excuse for the paltry numbers. Maybe he&#8217;ll let this latest guy go and blame him for turning on the guy who gave him a cushy job in DC.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Whatever, the drama just won&#8217;t end. It is boring me to tears.<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump went utterly ape-dookey over Bureau of Labor Stats figures a month ago that showed the U.S. added 77,000 jobs in July. What did he do? He fired the head of the BLS. He said the former bean counter couldn&#8217;t be trusted to produce good numbers. So he brought in his own guy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What now, Mr. POTUS, with latest job figures?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910],"tags":[10480,1515,10479],"class_list":["post-58824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","tag-bureau-of-labor-statistice","tag-economy","tag-job-figures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58827,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58824\/revisions\/58827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}