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A Daily Chronicle of Bush Administration Distortion March 31, 2004

     

Bush Can't Provide Proof To Support His Jobs Claim



As President Bush tours the country touting his economic record, he is trying to shift the blame for the more than 2 million jobs that have been lost since he took office1. Specifically, he has repeatedly claimed, "over a million jobs were lost because of the [9/11] attack"2. But a new report shows that there are no statistics to support this assertion, and that the White House itself cannot provide any evidence that this is the case.

According to the Bureau of National Affairs, "White House officials were unable to point to any specific information that supports a direct link between massive job losses and the attacks"3. While one White House spokeswoman claimed that the President's statements were "supported by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)," that agency's associate commissioner "said BLS has not compiled any specific study on jobs which were lost specifically because of the Sept. 11 attacks."

Sources:
  1. "Bush Record on The Economy and Jobs", Committee on Education and the Workforce, 02/26/2004.
  2. President Bush Discusses Job Training and the Economy in NY, 03/11/2004.
  3. Bureau of National Affairs, 03/22/2004.



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