“Meanwhile, when we view the “statistically significant”job losses for August, we see that only 16 states reported a net total of job losses of 279,800.
Once again, I will repeat these figures to make sure the magnitude of this lie is not lost on people. In its aggregate report for August, the BLS claims only 216,000 jobs were lost. However, the state-by-state numbers for only 16 states exceeded that total by over 25% (279,800) – and one of those 16 states supposedly had an increase in employment.
Furthermore, of the states listed, only one of the five most-populous states was included: Texas. Thus, if we subtract those 16 states (less than 1/3 of the U.S.), we are left with 26 more states which reported job losses, only 7 states reporting increases – and most of the large-population states had yet to be added to that total. Given these demographics, it is a reasonable extrapolation to estimate that the complete state-by-state totals would have been nearly three times as large, or over 800,000 jobs lost.”
