Jay Inslee likes to tout job creation as the focus of his administration, a bizarre claim given his constant blathering about climate change being his – and the world’s – top priority. Well, based on an Associated Press blurb today, you can be forgiven for thinking that Inslee doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
The AP points out that our state’s private sector actually lost 1,000 jobs in July, but those losses were offset by an increase in 3,600 government jobs. Despite the taxpayers’ funding those new jobs, the our state’s unemployment rate stayed at 5.8%, almost 20% above the rest of the country, since the “national unemployment rate for July was 4.9 percent.”
Yet, even that bad news could be worse if the feds reported the accurate statistics for how bad the job market is for many people. As the report pointed out, the “unemployment rate counts the percentage of people who are unemployed and actively looking for work, and doesn’t include those who have stopped looking for work.”
However, you can expect Inslee top keep making up his own job stats for the rest of his re-election campaign, lest he become one of those people looking for a new job after November.
