{"id":11039,"date":"2017-03-10T19:34:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T19:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-welcomes-government-jobs-report-he-once-derided\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T19:34:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T19:34:51","slug":"trump-welcomes-government-jobs-report-he-once-derided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-welcomes-government-jobs-report-he-once-derided\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump welcomes government jobs report he once derided"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump held a National Economic Council &#039;listening session&#039; with the CEOs on Thursday\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/10B1C\/production\/_95108386_gettyimages-650477182.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Trump held a National Economic Council &#039;listening session&#039; with the CEOs on Thursday                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">US President Donald Trump has hailed the federal government&#039;s latest positive job figures, which he once denounced as &quot;phony&quot; and a &quot;joke&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The US economy added 235,000 new jobs in February, Mr Trump&#039;s first full month in office.<\/p>\n<p>He retweeted a news report with the caption: &quot;GREAT AGAIN&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>During a campaign speech last August, Mr Trump called the Department of Labor numbers one of the &quot;biggest hoaxes in American modern politics&quot;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much has Trump achieved so far?<\/li>\n<li>US jobs growth strengthens case for March rate rise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Challenged about this contradiction at Friday&#039;s daily news briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Mr Trump believes, &quot;they may have been phony in the past but it&#039;s very real now.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures brought down the US unemployment rate from 4.8% to 4.7%, the report found.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the growth is being attributed by analysts to an unusually clement few weeks, allowing construction projects and hiring to continue uninterrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Last month was the warmest February on record.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago Mr Trump attacked the official unemployment rate, calling it &quot;such a phony number&quot; and &quot;the biggest joke&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Twitter                                                    <\/figure>\n<p>He asserted that some &quot;great economists&quot; estimate the real US jobless rate is as high as 32% or 42%.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact, a fact-checking website, rated the &quot;42%&quot; claim as &quot;pants on fire&quot; false.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump&#039;s US treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said during his confirmation hearing that &quot;the unemployment rate is not real&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-39226688 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Trump held a National Economic Council &#039;listening session&#039; with the CEOs on Thursday US President Donald Trump has hailed the federal government&#039;s latest positive job<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}