Selective Editing

The Schwarzenegger campaign put out a press release about today's job figures featuring an L.A. Times story. But it contained some selective editing, leaving out such morsels as:

• "The unemployment rate, however, rose to 4.9% from 4.8% in July."
• "Construction was the only sector to lose jobs, with a decline of 3,800 positions, reflecting a cooling in the state's once-sizzling housing market."

They did, however, provide a link to the story so people could read the bad news as well as the good. The Schwarzenegger campaign said for copyright reasons, they can't reprint the entire story.

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[Frank D. Russo]

They also didn’t report on what is in a recently released report of the University of California at Berkeley Labor Center, “Where Have All the Wages Gone? Jobs and Wages in 2006,” which documents that while jobs have been added in California since 2003, 1) the rate of this job creation is lower than in other years, 2) real wages have actually declined, 3) real wages have increased only for the top one-third of our state and 4) wage inequality is growing.
We reported on this yesterday (luck, not prescience) at http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2006/09/schwarzenegger_25.html .

Maybe Governor Schwarzenegger would like to return to what he said in his January of 2005 State of the State address: “If a politician tries to take credit for job growth, don't believe it. ... I did not create this record number of jobs.”