DES MOINES – The group Progress Iowa is claiming the Iowa Governor Terry Branstad failed in a campaign promise to deliver 200,000 new jobs to Iowa.
“Governor Terry Branstad has repeatedly deceived Iowans about job growth, claiming 100,000 jobs have been created, and did so again during his January 15 Condition of the State address”, Progress Iowa said on Thursday. “The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does not recognize the figures used by the Branstad Administration, and his claims have been widely criticized in the press and by independent economists. According to BLS recognized statistics, only 18,700 jobs have been created since Branstad took office in 2011. Governor Branstad is misleading Iowans in order to cover up his broken campaign promise to create 200,000 new jobs.”
In an op-ed published in the Des Moines Register on Wednesday, Branstad’s methodology was questioned in calculating job gain numbers.
“Gov. Terry Branstad’s claim that Iowa has added 100,000 jobs since January 2011 is nonsense. The number is based on an invented —and utterly invalid— measure of “gross over-the-month employment gains. This measure is calculated —and I am not making this up —but counting every monthly increase in employment in one of Iowa’s major sectors as a “gain” while ignoring all of the accompanying losses.”
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The Liberals just can not stand it that we have a little extra money. We are just damn lucky we are not bankrupt after 4 years of Culver and his spendthrift ideas. Anyone who believes Progress Iowa with their crap is a friggen IDIOT.
Check your facts Branstad inherited a surplus when he took office. So I guess Culver was not a spendthrift as you stated. Just saying
@jab-you really did drink the Kool Aid didn’t you. Culver left a 900 million dollar deficit and forced a 10% cut to cities and schools. There was no surplus when Branstad took over. All the Democrats did was carry the water for Culver and continue to SPEND, SPEND, SPEND. Just like they are proposing to do again. Follow the news before commenting please.
It’s like Obama lying about our taxes going up if you make less than $250.0000. He should be impeached for lying to the country.
It should be no suprise to anyone that Branstad is not being truthful its like his first time in office facts don’t matter to this guy. He is a good liar. “4ever49” I don’t believe Matt had anything to do with creating this article he is just reporting whats out there for the people to make up there own minds. I thought that is what a news outlet is suppose to do.
Another Matt Sinovic generated piece trying to be relevant for the left – but forgetting that Obama is on record for not raising the debt ceiling while a senator but now will not take questions about it when asked.