{"id":62464,"date":"2026-01-16T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62464"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:09:10","slug":"good-news-on-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62464","title":{"rendered":"Good News On The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Western Journal<\/a> posted an article about the December jobs numbers.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The top economist at the Heritage Foundation made a compelling case for why President Donald Trump\u2019s jobs numbers are better than the headline figure indicates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported<\/a> last week that a total of 50,000 jobs were added to the economy in December. That\u2019s a holding-steady number. Given the country\u2019s population, it takes upward of 50,000 new jobs<\/a> to keep the unemployment rate about constant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Such was true last month when the unemployment rate dropped slightly, by 0.1 percent to 4.4 percent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Heritage Foundation\u2019s chief economist, E.J. Antoni, pointed out in a piece for Townhall.com<\/a> that if you look a little deeper at U.S. employment, there\u2019s some very encouraging information, especially for those holding down multiple jobs to make ends meet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He highlighted the discrepancy between the 50,000 news jobs figure and the survey of households\u2019 total, finding that the number of people employed in the country jumped by 232,000<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an explanation for this difference if we dig further into the report, and it indicates a very positive development in the labor market,\u201d Antoni argued.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of multiple jobholders plunged by 444,000 last month, the second-largest drop since the government-imposed Covid lockdowns. Simultaneously in December, the number of part-time jobs declined by 740,000 while full-time employment shot up by 890,000,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

But, Antoni noted, \u201cAll the net job growth in 2025 came from the productive private sector, while government jobs declined, due entirely to federal layoffs. It\u2019s a positive development, but it drags down the headline jobs number.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The BLS reported that federal employment is down 277,000 from January of last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden presided over<\/a> a nearly 6 percent increase in the size of the full-time federal workforce during his tenure, with the total cresting 3 million in September 2024 for the first time since 1990, according to USA Facts<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The current number of federal employees is 2.744 million<\/a>, the lowest since late 2014<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, under Trump, people\u2019s real income is going up, since wage increases are outpacing inflation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump told the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday, \u201cAfter real wages plummeted by $3,000 under Sleepy Joe Biden, real wages are up by $1,300 in less than one year under President Trump.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inflation is a major tax on all Americans. Just bringing inflation down to manageable levels increases affordability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Western Journal posted an article about the December jobs numbers. The article reports: The top economist at the Heritage Foundation made a compelling case for why President Donald Trump\u2019s jobs numbers are better than the headline figure … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18893,1843,2026,11827,11619,297],"class_list":["post-62464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-federal-employment","tag-heritage-foundation","tag-private-sector","tag-the-western-journal","tag-townhall","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62465,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62464\/revisions\/62465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}