{"id":862211,"date":"2021-10-09T10:29:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=862211"},"modified":"2021-10-09T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:29:46","slug":"white-house-blame-covid-for-poor-jobs-report-not-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-blame-covid-for-poor-jobs-report-not-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: Blame COVID for poor jobs report not Biden"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fwhite-house-blame-covid-for-poor-jobs-report-not-biden%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=862211&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 id=\"attachment_2544682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2544682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 SEPTEMBER 28: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki gestures as she speaks at a press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on September 28, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:10 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, October 9, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Amid a disappointing jobs report, the White House is blaming the Delta variant and other factors. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki attempted to soften the blow of the dismal September jobs report during a press briefing on Friday. She attempted to defend the poor report, which showed the economy had only added 194,000 jobs, by shifting blame to COVID.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve also seen that the pandemic, while it\u2019s been incredibly challenging on many many levels, it\u2019s also prompted many people to think what their careers might look like and what careers they may pursue,\u201d stated Psaki at the briefing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked about the September jobs report that &#8220;fell well below expectations&#8221; and rising inflation and prices, Press Secretary Jen Psaki says, &#8220;We certainly don\u2019t see things as darkly as you do\u2026we\u2019re on track.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/duoMnepiYm\">pic.twitter.com\/duoMnepiYm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1446558734080217103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The number is far below the 500,000 jobs, which economists expected for the month. Psaki said a range of factors have impacted the weak workforce numbers, asserting without data that many people are still reluctant to enter the job market over fears of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our assessment, one is people are still fearful of COVID and what it will be like in work places and ensuring their own safety. There are still challenges as it relates to childcare, eldercare, the cost of those and being able to afford it, and also the availability which is something we\u2019ve seen a shortage of in many communities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter pressed Psaki on a concrete answer for the low jobs report, she responded by saying Joe Biden was leading during a hard time and then declined to comment any further.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html\">RealClearPolitics<\/a> average has Biden\u2019s job approval underwater and down nearly 10 points in two months.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/dhs-cancels-border-wall-contracts-with-cbp-laredo-rio-grande-valley-sectors\/\">DHS Cancels Border Wall Contracts With CBP Laredo, Rio Grande Valley Sectors<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 SEPTEMBER 28: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki gestures as she speaks at a press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-862211","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\/862211","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862211\/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=862211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}