by TYLER DURDEN
This morning, we said that in a year that has seen every monthly payrolls report revised lower…
… which is hardly a fluke since under Biden, every single data point ends up being revised lower eventually, with today’s new home sales getting the same treatment and every month’s new home sales data was also revised lower…
… the last pillar of Bidenomics was about to be revised away even more, as the BLS confirmed what we have been saying for much of the past year, namely that hundreds of thousands of US jobs were nothing more than a figment in the BLS’s imagination, and politically motivated excel spreadsheets.
That’s precisely what happened when according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary benchmark revision projection published this morning, US job growth was far less robust in the year through March than previously reported, and according to the BLS the number of workers on payrolls will be revised down by at least 306,000, and likely much more when the final revisions take place in early 2024.
The revision results from a comparison between reported nonfarm payrolls and a (near) universe count of employment from unemployment insurance records. In last year’s benchmark revision, the BLS revised up nonfarm payrolls by 506k.
The BLS table below shows the March 2023 preliminary benchmark revisions by major industry sector. While the preliminary benchmark revisions are calculated only for the month of March 2023 for major industry sectors, the data for all CES series will be updated when the final benchmark revision is issued.
The background, for those who missed it: once a year, the BLS benchmarks the March payrolls level to a more accurate but less timely data source called the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) that’s based on state unemployment insurance tax records and covers nearly all US jobs. When the March payrolls figures are aligned to that count, the change is proportionally distributed across the year ended in March. First-quarter QCEW figures were also released Wednesday.
And Joe will still insist that Bidenomics is working. For whom?
This was the tactic of the Obama administration as well; report some glowing stats then, later while no one is looking, revise them down. They are constantly trying to bury their incompetence.
With some revisions joe only has 3 days to crow.
Had the initial number been decent, joe could have crowed about this for months because it takes almost a year to publish final revisions.
I remember obama using employment of US Census workers to bump up his jobs’ numbers.
even if it meant he’d fire thousands then re-hire them OVER & OVER again.
Looked good on paper.