Post by Logan on Jun 21, 2016 0:55:23 GMT -6
Sam Brownback gets blasted for his misleading unemployment claim
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback hasn’t had much to celebrate lately. The most unpopular governor in America presides over a nearly broke state that’s facing a public schools funding crisis.
So when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the May employment numbers for all 50 states on Friday, Brownback tweeted:
However, Brownback left out a very inconvenient fact.
In the last 12 months, Kansas actually lost 700 jobs, for a “growth” rate of minus 0.1 percent, the sixth worst rate in the nation.
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article84771202.html
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback hasn’t had much to celebrate lately. The most unpopular governor in America presides over a nearly broke state that’s facing a public schools funding crisis.
So when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the May employment numbers for all 50 states on Friday, Brownback tweeted:
However, Brownback left out a very inconvenient fact.
In the last 12 months, Kansas actually lost 700 jobs, for a “growth” rate of minus 0.1 percent, the sixth worst rate in the nation.
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article84771202.html