The Trump campaign criticized the Obama administration over a monthly labor report Friday showing sluggish job growth in August, calling the numbers a sign of a “troubling long-term trend.”
“The August jobs report shows the stagnant Clinton-Obama economy fails to deliver the jobs Americans desperately need,” said David Malpass, senior economic adviser to Trump, in a statement.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added 151,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate held steady at 4.9 percent. That figure fell short of the average job growth of 232,000 that had developed over the past few months.
“That would be bad enough, but when we look at the kind of jobs being produced, it’s even worse,” Malpass said. “Over a third are low-paying service jobs in sectors such as retail and restaurants that won’t support a family, pay for a home or put children through college.”
Malpass blasted the “Clinton-Obama recovery” for allowing manufacturing jobs to drift overseas as the labor force participation rate plummeted.
He blamed the “lack of good-paying jobs” on the “Clinton globalist policies” that did not prioritize American industry.
