{"id":860222,"date":"2021-10-08T15:43:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=860222"},"modified":"2021-10-08T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:43:40","slug":"biden-dismisses-another-disappointing-jobs-report-claims-real-progress-is-being-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-dismisses-another-disappointing-jobs-report-claims-real-progress-is-being-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Dismisses Another Disappointing Jobs Report, Claims \u2018Real Progress\u2019 Is Being Made"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-dismisses-another-disappointing-jobs-report-claims-real-progress-is-being-made%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=860222&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><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden dismissed concerns after September\u2019s disappointing jobs report, telling the nation Friday that \u201creal progress\u201d is being made.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. economy <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/08\/us-add-194000-jobs-september-miss-expectation\/\">added<\/a> 194,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.8%, according to statistics from the Department of Labor. The 194,000 jobs number is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/september-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-2021-11633641477?mod=hp_lead_pos2&amp;mod=hp_lead_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">smallest since<\/a> December 2020, but Biden focused on the unemployment rate dropping during his remarks and largely downplayed concerns over the consistently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/03\/united-states-economy-joe-biden-economic-growth-pandemic\/\">underperforming<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>As he did in August, the president sought to blame COVID-19, highlighting how Friday\u2019s report \u201cis based on a survey that was taken during the week of September 13.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot today, September the 13, when COVID cases were average more than 150,000 per day,\u201d Biden said, later touting the number of vaccinations in the country. \u201cSince then, we\u2019ve seen the daily cases fall by more than one-third and they\u2019re continuing to trend down and we\u2019re continuing to make progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, things in Washington, as you all know, are awfully noisy. Turn on the news and every conversation is a confrontation,\u201d the president added. \u201cEvery disagreement is a crisis. But when you take a step back and look at what\u2019s happening, we\u2019re actually making real progress. Maybe it doesn\u2019t seem fast enough. I\u2019d like to see it faster and we\u2019re going to make it faster. Maybe it doesn\u2019t appear dramatic enough. \u2026 We\u2019re making consistent and steady progress, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden noted that the black unemployment rate fell alongside the overall unemployment rate, touted the \u201cjob creation in the first eight months of\u201d his administration and claimed that the trend Americans are seeing \u201cis solid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With this glass half-full focus, Biden also shifted focus during his speech and touted his legislative agenda. The president has been pushing the bipartisan infrastructure bill and his Build Back Better agenda, although his own party has clashed over contents of the latter bill and its price tag. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/01\/joe-biden-spending-plan-infrastructure\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;White House Won\u2019t Stop Claiming Biden\u2019s Spending Plans \u2018Costs $0\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to stay focused on what these bills mean for the people, who are just looking for a little bit of breathing room, a fair chance to build a decent middle-class life, to succeed and thrive instead of just hanging on by their fingernails,\u201d Biden said, taking no questions from the press following his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/08\/politics\/september-jobs-report-biden-administration\/index.html\">echoed<\/a> Biden\u2019s positive claims on CNN after the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/23\/jobless-claims-united-states-economy-pandemic-joe-biden-labor-department\/\">jobs report<\/a> came out, saying there are \u201cbright spots\u201d to be seen from the news. White House press secretary Jen Psaki made similar comments, as well, touting the unemployment numbers and claiming that the trends are positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not all doom and gloom here today,\u201d Walsh said before admitting the country isn\u2019t where the administration would like it to be. \u201cCertainly, we know, I would love to be on this show saying we added 3 million jobs to the economy and now we can go on to something else, but unfortunately we\u2019re still \u2013 we\u2019re not there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden dismissed concerns after September\u2019s disappointing jobs report, telling the nation Friday that \u201creal progress\u201d is being made.The U.S. economy added 194,000 jobs in September and the unemployment &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860222","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}