For Trump, jobs report should not be good enough

Published March 10, 2017 4:12pm ET



Allies of President Trump are heralding the first jobs report of his administration, touting its strong numbers as evidence that his pro-growth policies are already boosting the economy.

Trump, of course, was famously skeptical of the government’s jobs reports on the campaign trail. The reports, he argued, do not convey the “real” unemployment rate. As a candidate, he speculated that rate could actually be as high as 42 percent.

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