MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 01-05-2024-223008
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ali Velshi in for Alex Wagner. Last month the United States economy gained |
| 0:05.1 | 216,000 jobs. Unemployment kept steady at an historic 3.7%. That marks three consecutive years of economic growth in Biden's three years in |
| 0:16.4 | office and along with more jobs come consistently higher wages. There's no way |
| 0:21.2 | to paint this as anything but good. So let's see how they celebrated the good news over at Fox. |
| 0:28.0 | The job numbers are through the roof. |
| 0:30.0 | Jobs numbers are pretty gangbusters. Job numbers smashed out. the job numbers |
| 0:34.1 | numbers smashed expectations. Of course the left is trying to figure out how to spend |
| 0:39.3 | these great economic numbers. |
| 0:42.8 | Okay, I'm kidding. |
| 0:43.8 | That isn't how they celebrated at Fox. |
| 0:46.0 | That was Fox, but that wasn't today. |
| 0:48.5 | Those were Fox personalities talking about positive job numbers during Donald Trump's presidency because in Fox's |
| 0:54.0 | world the monthly job numbers were always fantastic when Trump was in charge |
| 0:58.6 | but today when Fox and even Fox business did talk about Biden's positive job numbers. The bulk of it sounded like |
| 1:06.2 | this. We've got another strong jobs report but it isn't what it appears. |
| 1:11.7 | Under the hood, it's a rather soft number. |
| 1:15.0 | This is one of those rare occasions when a lower unemployment rate is bad news. |
| 1:20.0 | Now, what makes that negative reaction to today's jobs number so amazing is that |
| 1:25.4 | Biden's job numbers for last year were as good or better than Trump's job |
| 1:29.4 | numbers for every year he was in office, the economy added 2.7 million jobs last year. |
| 1:36.8 | That matches the best year of Trump's presidency. |
| 1:39.6 | The years when Fox was saying his numbers were through the roof, gangbusters, and smashed all expectations. |
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