On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” acting Labor Secretary Julie Su stated that the October jobs report had various anomalies in it due to hurricanes and strikes and reacted to the downward revisions in the August and September jobs reports that weren’t impacted by those factors by stating that there are always revisions and even with the revisions, we still have jobs numbers that “reflect a strong economy and real wage growth.”
After Su said that there were “anomalies” in the most recent report, co-host John Berman asked, “So, there were downward revisions in August and September as well, not hurricanes, really, or Boeing. How do you account for those?”
Su responded, “Right, so, even with those revisions — and there are always revisions, it’s part of the jobs numbers…even with that, the prior three-month average is a plus 148,000 jobs….
