Fox Business guest and Project 2025 contributor Stephen Moore dabbles with conspiracy theory that monthly jobs reports are artificially inflated
Pro-Trump media responded to an annual jobs report revision in August with conspiracy theories of “election interference” and “cooking the books”
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Citation From the September 6, 2024, edition of Fox Business' Mornings with Maria Bartiromo
STEPHEN MOORE (PROJECT 2025 CONTRIBUTOR): If you look at the revisions, remember, they had to revise by 800,000 jobs that they have previously reported existed that didn't exist. Remember, that came out about a week or two ago. But then I looked at the revisions that have happened every month for the last 14 months. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has now overestimated job creation from the initial reports by over 400,000 jobs. These errors are not random when you have like 11 of the last 13 months that have been overestimates. So again, what was the number we just saw, something like, what was it, for this month and the previous month, another 80,000 reduction in the number of jobs we thought we had. Something is wrong with the way they’re creating – they’re counting employment. And if you add these two things together, you know, they’ve overestimated job growth by about 1.2-1.3 million jobs.