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Exclusive – Marsha Blackburn: Even the Media Can’t Ignore Historic Job Numbers
Breitbart ^ | 4 May 2019 | Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

Posted on 05/04/2019 5:02:33 PM PDT by KC_Lion

FILE - In this May 29, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump listens as Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks at a rally at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. Blackburn is supposed to do well among Tennessee’s hog farmers and whiskey makers. Yet the Republican Senate candidate is struggling …

They just can’t help themselves. The liberal media does it every single day. They are drawn like moths to the flame for the D.C. story of the day. This week they were enamored with the House Democrats’ antics and their latest stunt. Republicans, with President Donald J. Trump’s leadership, remain focused on what the American people elected us to do. But even the media could not ignore the historic nature of the April jobs numbers released by the Labor Department on Friday.

The top level numbers are impressive on their own. The United States economy added 263,000 jobs last month, considerably more than the 180,000 economists expected.

To consider the real value of these statistics, we must remember that in each one of those 263,000 jobs is now a teenager saving for college, a single mom working to make ends meet, an anxious parent striving to provide for their children, and a deserving veteran joining the civilian workforce after serving our country.

The unemployment rate dropped down to 3.6 percent. That’s the lowest unemployment rate since December 1969, when I was a high school student working in a dress shop on weekends. Peter, Paul, and Mary; Steam; Diana Ross and The Supremes were at the top of the Billboard Charts. A Boy Named Charlie Brown first hit theaters, and we had just landed on the moon for the first time.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: blackburn; economy; jobs; lamestreammedia; mainstreammedia; marshablackburn; media
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