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Why the U.S. Jobs Report Is Always Wrong (Sort of) | WSJ
- [Narrator] These are the number of jobs that were added to the US economy in the last year, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases every month in the jobs report. Or really, these are the initial number of jobs added to the economy. Each report also revises the number of the last three months.These are the latest revisions. Last September was only off by 1,000. Last July was more typical, about 30,000.But the latest revision, May and June were way off. President Trump was not happy, and he fired th ...