{"id":1268,"date":"2012-02-06T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2012-02-06T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:33:28","slug":"right-wing-media-rely-on-discredited-evidence-to-dismiss-positive-jobs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/02\/right-wing-media-rely-on-discredited-evidence-to-dismiss-positive-jobs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing Media Rely On Discredited Evidence To Dismiss Positive Jobs Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right-wing media are rushing to put a negative spin on newly released jobs numbers showing a drop in the unemployment rate and a net increase in jobs by parroting the discredited claim that government data show that &#8220;1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force&#8221; last month. In fact, as economic experts have explained, that number reflected an increase in population from 2010 Census figures and is not the result of how many people &#8220;dropped out&#8221; of the labor force last month.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/201202030017?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediamatters%2Flatest+%28Media+Matters+-+Latest+Items%29\">Right-Wing Media Rely On Discredited Evidence To Dismiss Positive Jobs Report | Media Matters for America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right-wing media are rushing to put a negative spin on newly released jobs numbers showing a drop in the unemployment rate and a net increase in jobs by parroting the discredited claim that government data show that &#8220;1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force&#8221; last month. In fact, as economic experts have explained,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[828,841,843,97,229,842],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}