Well This is Embarrassing … Liberal WRAL Attacks Obama-Biden Top Economist, Calls Him “Mythmaker”
WRAL: “There are some looking to perpetuate a myth that there are people who aren’t working or looking for jobs but simply continuing to accept government benefits”
Top Obama-Biden economist Jason Furman: “The factors responsible for the slow employment recovery … [include] expanded unemployment insurance benefits and eligibility”
Raleigh, N.C. — The liberal, usually fact-deficient opinion wing of WRAL put out another uninformed editorial this morning that (probably unintentionally) attacked the former top economist for the Obama-Biden White House.
Jason Furman, now at Harvard and still a top Biden ally, published a paper last week concluding “the factors responsible for the slow employment recovery … [include] expanded unemployment insurance benefits and eligibility.”
The Furman paper raised eyebrows because it revealed Democratic Party talking points to be so off base. A Politico headline last week read, “A Biden-friendly economist is creating a big headache for president’s spending plans.”
WRAL appears to not have gotten the memo. Their editorial page called it a “myth” that some aren’t returning to jobs because of generous unemployment benefits, and labeled as “mythmakers” those who made such claims, which would include top Obama-Biden economist Jason Furman.
WRAL also advanced the claim, debunked by Furman, that the “costs of childcare and related expenses” are contributing to the slow employment recovery.
Furman concluded that “the estimated amount of the overall decline in employment that can be explained by challenges particular to mothers of young children is even smaller (zero, in fact)…”
One wonders when PolitiFact will start “fact checking” WRAL’s constantly error-ridden editorials. Though that’s unlikely to happen, since WRAL partnered with PolitiFact last year.
