POLL: Most American Voters Believe the Government is Lying About Recent Jobs Report
Jose Nino
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According to a poll recently conducted by Rasmussen, the majority of voters believe the government has cooked job creation numbers.
The poll found that 53% of likely voters believe that the recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures are filled with overestimations. By contrast, 34% of voters believe those figures were an honest mistake. 13% are unsure.
In August, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the United States economy added 818,000 fewer jobs than the government had previously projected from the spring of 2023 to the spring of 2024. 59% of voters believe it is likely that the revised jobs projection signals that the economy is going into a recession, which includes 31% who believe it’s very likely. 31% don’t believe it’s likely that the declining revision indicates a recession, which includes 10% who signaled it is not at all likely.
As far as the 2024 presidential election is concerned, 52% of voters trust former President Donald Trump more to handle the economy, by contrast, 44% trust Vice President Kamala Harris more. Among poll respondents who trust Trump more to oversee the economy, 81% believe the federal government’s overestimation of job creation was motivated by politics. Among those who trust Harris more to handle the economy, 65% think the overestimation was an honest mistake.
While 72% of Republicans say the BLS overestimate of job creation was politically motivated, 55% of Democrat voters believe it was an honest mistake. Among independent voters, 58% believe it was politically motivated and 29% indicated it was an honest mistake.
42% of Democrat voters, 77% of Republicans voters, and 58% independent voters believe it’s likely the revised jobs projection demonstrates that the economy is heading into a recession.
83% of Republican voters trust Trump more and 79% of Democrat voters trust Harris more to handle the economy. Among independent voters, Trump has higher levels of trust by a 21-point margin, 56% to Harris’s 35%.
When it comes to race, 53% of white voters, 52% of black voters, 56% of Hispanic voters and 49% of other non-black minorities believe the BLS overestimation of job creation was politically motivated.
As far as income categories are concerned, voters making below $50,000 annually are more likely to believe the revised jobs estimate is a sign that the economy is entering the territory of recession status.
Economic statistics are largely manipulated by the ruling class to paint the narrative that everything is going fine when any on-the-ground look at the economy tells us a different story. The Biden regime here is just trying to make the Democrat-run economy look good so that Kamala Harris can win her election against Trump.
JThe fact is inflation has become a fixture of the US economy and the middle class is getting pummeled. The only way the economy can return to normalcy is for their to be a total downsizing of the administrative state, wholesale reductions in taxes, and a return to sound money.
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