When It Comes to the Jobs Report, WaPo Prefers to Repeat What Its Friends Say Rather than Look at the Data

Folks at the Washington Post generally don't like to have facts interfere with their stories about the world. We got another example of this behavior in its article on the Labor Department's job numbers for October. The Post told readers:

"In addition, Chudars [Judy, Chudars, the president of a job placement firm in Washington] said, more people are voluntarily leaving their jobs for lateral positions — a key characteristic of a healthy labor market that economists call 'churn.'"

Contrary to...