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Sunday, September 4, 2016

#Lyin'Donald: Pants on Fire! "... the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms that Ohio added more than 8,000 manufacturing jobs last year."

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Capitol Insider: Trump staff dislikes having lie pointed out
By Darrel Rowland, September 4, 2016

When you write that a presidential candidate just lied again, it tends to get the attention of the campaign.

Donald Trump told a few thousand at a rally Thursday in Wilmington that “Our trade deficit with the proposed TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) member countries cost the state of Ohio more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs last year. Imagine how many more jobs would be lost if TPP was actually approved.”

It was the same claim Trump had made during an earlier Ohio visit, a number that was debunked by Dispatch Reporter Randy Ludlow, who found that Ohio actually gained manufacturing jobs in 2015. Thus our story saying Trump had repeated a falsehood.

Still, the Trump campaign insisted he didn’t just make the number up, pointing to a March 2016 study by the Economic Policy Institute — ironically, a pro-labor group that Democrats love to cite.

Indeed, on Table 5 of that study, Ohio ranked seventh in the nation, with 112,500 “net” jobs lost. Unfortunately, that table showed TOTAL jobs lost, not just manufacturing jobs. And even that overall number likely would be disputed by many — including Gov. John Kasich, who regularly points to the hundreds of thousands of jobs gained in Ohio since he’s taken office.

Bottom line: the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms that Ohio added more than 8,000 manufacturing jobs last year. Others, such as the Ohio Manufacturers Association, put the number even higher.

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