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NY Times's Ben Casselman Hardest Hit: BLS Overestimated Biden-Era Jobs by 911,000
NewsBusters ^ | 9/9/2025 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 09/10/2025 9:58:16 AM PDT by JV3MRC

For all of New York Times chief economics correspondent Ben Casselman’s fussbudgeting over President Donald Trump supposedly compromising the reliability of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a new report pointing to gross BLS ineptitude just made him look like a complete idiot.

The Bidenomics simp Casselman was forced to report that the BLS overestimated jobs growth during the Biden era — AGAIN — this time by nearly 1 million (-911,000) in the 12-month period ending March 2025, the largest revision on record. Casselman conceded that it was the “latest sign that the labor market, until recently a bright spot in the economy, may be weaker than it initially appeared.”

Remember: this scandalously politicized Fake News came out during the election season.

What makes this worse is that Casselman is the same person who co-wrote an embellished pre-election Day report slobbering all over Biden jobs market October 5, 2024: “The Job Market Is Chugging Along, Completing a Solid Economic Picture.” Like the cherry on top of this luscious-looking pile of crow, Casselman praised how “And the incoming evidence points to a clear conclusion: The economy is robust … In fact, the [September BLS] report reinforced that by many measures, the job market is as healthy as it has ever been.”

Oof!

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bencasselman; bls; california; economy; erikamcentarfer; jobs; josephvazquez; kamalaharris; laborstatistics; minnesota; newsbusters; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nyt; timwalz

1 posted on 09/10/2025 9:58:16 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

So why 100,000 h-1b work visas a year? How about none!


2 posted on 09/10/2025 9:59:46 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...a)
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To: JV3MRC

Rodents are incapable of being embarrassed so don’t worry about comrade Casselman he has already forgotten this story.


3 posted on 09/10/2025 10:16:26 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: JV3MRC

The entire Biden Presidency was one big fraudulent act.


4 posted on 09/10/2025 10:23:54 AM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: JV3MRC

missing the mark should be a crime

what about business decisions made baed upon the stats?


5 posted on 09/10/2025 10:29:01 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***h)
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To: JV3MRC

Virtually zero average working people give these numbers the slightest thought.


6 posted on 09/10/2025 10:33:31 AM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: JV3MRC

Memory hole with this one, too.


7 posted on 09/10/2025 10:34:22 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: JV3MRC

They didn’t overestimate anything.

They just made crap up!...............


8 posted on 09/10/2025 11:01:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: wjcsux

It was one big con job!.................


9 posted on 09/10/2025 11:03:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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