{"id":1949193,"date":"2023-06-16T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T17:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentucky-governor-andy-beshear-lied-about-record-job-gains-stats-show\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T17:23:09","slug":"kentucky-governor-andy-beshear-lied-about-record-job-gains-stats-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentucky-governor-andy-beshear-lied-about-record-job-gains-stats-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear&#8217;s Job Gain Claims Proven False by Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkentucky-governor-andy-beshear-lied-about-record-job-gains-stats-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1949193&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Fewer Kentuckians are working now than when Dem governor took office<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<figure><figcaption>Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (Photo by Jon Cherry\/Getty Images for Concordia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Kentucky Democratic governor Andy Beshear claims that there are &#8220;more Kentuckians employed than ever before in state history&#8221; under his watch. However, labor statistics reveal a different story. There are actually fewer Kentuckians working now than when Beshear took office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Beshear made this claim during a June 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=12jLz4WPF1Q&#038;t=339s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">address<\/a>, where he shared &#8220;incredible news&#8221; about Kentucky&#8217;s supposed milestone and record-breaking achievements. He repeated the statement in a follow-up press release, stating that there are more Kentuckians employed than ever before in state history.<\/p>\n<p>However, when scrutinized, Beshear&#8217;s claim falls apart. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/06\/16\/is-kentuckys-workforce-growing-under-gov-andy-beshear\/70314559007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labor statistics<\/a>, approximately 1.97 million Kentuckians are currently employed, which is 22,000 fewer than when Beshear took office in December 2019. Beshear&#8217;s assertion that over 2 million Kentuckians are working comes from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of state businesses. However, this survey counts total workers, not individuals who are employed, leading to double or triple-counting for those with multiple jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Southard, spokesman for the Kentucky Republican Party, believes that Beshear either doesn&#8217;t understand the numbers or purposely misled the public and the media. Southard emphasizes that the fact remains: there are fewer people employed today than when Beshear assumed office. He questions why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentucky-governor-andy-beshear-lied-about-record-job-gains-stats-show\/\" title=\"Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear's Job Gain Claims Proven False by Statistics\">governor celebrates needing extra jobs<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">make ends meet<\/a> in the Biden-Beshear economy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Interestingly, Beshear seems to be changing his tune regarding his stat. After being presented with the correct labor statistics by the Courier Journal, Beshear now claims that Kentucky has a record number of jobs filled, not employed Kentuckians. Despite the correction, Beshear&#8217;s office continues to highlight this amended achievement, stating that he has secured the most filled jobs in state history, exceeding a historic 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>This discrepancy arises as Beshear faces a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kiss-my-gay-country-ass-kentuckys-beshear-taps-new-poet-laureate\/\" title=\"'Kiss My Gay Country Ass': Kentucky's Beshear Taps New Poet Laureate\">challenging reelection bid<\/a> against Republican attorney general Daniel Cameron. Beshear, the son of a former governor and attorney general of Kentucky, narrowly won the governor&#8217;s seat in 2019. Cameron is expected to be a formidable challenger, with both candidates tied at 47 percent support according to a Cygnal poll conducted in May. The upcoming election in November will determine their fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>office, contradicting his claim of record-high employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":1949195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4095,28854,4856,4854,9423,4173,7819,12830,17542,10912],"class_list":["post-1949193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-andy","tag-beshears","tag-claims","tag-false","tag-gain","tag-governor","tag-job","tag-kentucky","tag-proven","tag-statistics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}