There is mixed economic numbers out there, but honestly most of them are very good. Job growth, wage growth, corporate profits etc…balanced by concerning inflation. Yet more than 2/3 of the country thinks the economy is in the shitter. Are they hearing the whole story? Really?

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) March 4, 2022

Polls show the public thinks the U.S. lost jobs last year, when in fact it posted record-breaking job growth. Economic reporters should be ashamed. https://t.co/Gdh3aEqk4I

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) March 4, 2022

BREAKING: The U.S. added 678,000 jobs in February, vs. 440,000 expected. https://t.co/E6N72CZy1H pic.twitter.com/ij4yVtL6ME

— CNBC (@CNBC) March 4, 2022

I swear, I can hear the scrambling in elite newsrooms from here. https://t.co/ivN19racdg

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 4, 2022

in February, unemployment rates ticked down as employment-population ratios ticked up for both Black and Hispanic groups: https://t.co/iQTLmHZoxd

— Brian Cheung (@bcheungz) March 4, 2022

Here's where the jobs are — in one chart https://t.co/dzTj3shESN pic.twitter.com/pwq9GXFGFv

— CNBC (@CNBC) March 4, 2022

Opinion | The job market is booming, writes @crampell. So why doesn’t it feel like it? https://t.co/HthhsIuWRk

— MDRC (@MDRC_News) March 6, 2022

red-state governors are allowing anti-vaxxers to leave their jobs and collect unemployment. Sloth! Dependency! Biden should condemn the notion that taxpayers should foot the bill for vaccine refusers. https://t.co/WsS88oUift

— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 3, 2022

From the Washington Post Editorial Board | Handing out unemployment aid to people who refuse to get vaccinated (as at least five states are doing) is silly https://t.co/nOYZJ2ZvKH

— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 2, 2022

Republicans used to complain about excessive unemployment benefits. Now they encourage sloth, @JRubinBlogger writes. https://t.co/hg2Ji8ZzVp

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) December 31, 2021

Iowa cut extended unemployments benefits in the spring, reasoning that they were disouraging people from working and not needed even during the pandemic.

Now they’re extending unemployment benefits to those who refuse vaccine mandates meant to bring an end to the pandemic https://t.co/uPA1zd9wTz

— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 29, 2021

As Dave Weigel would say, I've seen enough: the red-state rush to cut off aid to the unemployed did not do much if anything to create jobs, but did create vast, gratuitous hardship for millions of Americans 1/ https://t.co/O4FrE2icsR

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 20, 2021

Americans w/ college degrees: Recovered all pandemic job losses by May

Americans w/o college degrees: 4.5 million jobs short pre-pandemic level

Black women least recovered@andrewvandam @byHeatherLong https://t.co/JzGMQnjJ5Q pic.twitter.com/iJMaClobge

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) October 7, 2021

I’m shocked that Republicans were wrong again. https://t.co/m9gJEgXpXZ

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 20, 2021

As Dave Weigel would say, I've seen enough: the red-state rush to cut off aid to the unemployed did not do much if anything to create jobs, but did create vast, gratuitous hardship for millions of Americans 1/ https://t.co/O4FrE2icsR

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 20, 2021

26 states — all but one led by a Republican — have moved to stop paying out the extra $300 in unemployment benefits ahead of the September cutoff.

Some also ended special programs that allowed gig workers to receive benefits.https://t.co/hOeWrS4F25

— Axios (@axios) July 31, 2021

U.S. states ending federal unemployment benefit saw no clear job gains https://t.co/2Ost9T3ccs pic.twitter.com/RRbq8R0Zi3

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 20, 2021

The Marxist communist socialists at, um, JP Morgan find no evidence that cutting unemployment benefits creates jobs https://t.co/oahYEUERf3

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) July 10, 2021

Google search trends showing that states ending enhanced unemployment insurance early haven’t seen a pickup in positive job search activity … states not ending benefits early have seen search activity improve ⁦@DataArbor⁩ pic.twitter.com/zXPfAoeqxp

— Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) August 5, 2021

Just as expected, states that cut off unemployment benefits aren’t seeing employment changes any faster than those who kept providing them.

But states did hurt poor people bc they believe in a BS story of the economy for workers & have no problem giving away benefits to big biz.

— Oren Jacobson 🔯 (@Oren_Jacobson) July 31, 2021

Interesting study on the effect of unemployment insurance benefits ending on job finding. https://t.co/BDHreCv5ZX

— Robert Frick (@RobertFrickNFCU) July 30, 2021

Despite disappointing jobs reports in the spring, experts say there's no evidence the $300 per week is slowing the economic recovery. https://t.co/vp0xx8E1U8

— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) July 6, 2021

Not a particularly difficult mystery to solve. https://t.co/TR6kUR97IR pic.twitter.com/RvGF3pTlBB

— Zachary D. Carter (@zachdcarter) June 28, 2021

NYT and WSJ reach contradictory conclusions this morning absolutely it the effect of ending enhanced unemployment assistance in Missouri. pic.twitter.com/QJDxFdbVfb

— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) June 28, 2021

In Missouri, no sign so far that cutting unemployment benefits have made jobs easier to fillhttps://t.co/gzP3p3AEhF pic.twitter.com/qOUExovyaL

— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock) June 27, 2021

GOP governors are cutting unemployment aid. Some have ties to businesses that may benefit. https://t.co/iheEgPRyGK

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 8, 2021

Why is there a labor shortage? With soaring wages and job openings at record highs, workers say they're feeling empowered to put a price on their dignity. https://t.co/LxyiKWAeVR

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) June 13, 2021

“The relationship between American businesses and their employees is undergoing a profound shift: For the first time in a generation, workers are gaining the upper hand.”

This story filled me with joy. https://t.co/WXWFmlSqeN

— Bharat Ramamurti (@BharatRamamurti) June 5, 2021

"It's not that unemployment benefits are too high. … It's that pay is far too low. This should be a wake-up call for a country that has spent decades mistreating, neglecting and radically underpaying its workers," writes @JillFilipovic for @CNNOpinion https://t.co/diM5RKfbGR

— CNN (@CNN) June 2, 2021

The 2010s gave us the gig economy and left millions of workers stranded seemingly forever on the precipice of financial ruin. The 2020s could be the decade when workers seize back the reins of power. https://t.co/EDFufkAG0B

— Axios (@axios) June 13, 2021

One more time for the people in the back: There is no labor shortage. There is a shortage of living wage jobs. https://t.co/sgVjKiVy5p

— Odessa Kelly (@OdessaKellyTN) June 15, 2021

Workers have the leverage — but health and family concerns mean not everyone is ready to go back to “normal.” https://t.co/dkzXzFhzhF

— Christine Romans (@ChristineRomans) June 22, 2021

What do you call a “worker shortage" that becomes a flood of applications when an employer offers $15 an hour?

A wage shortage.

Fight for $15 deserves tons of credit for giving workers the confidence to refuse 2009 wages when they're paying 2021 rent.https://t.co/yVAPkza1KT

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 28, 2021

While overall unemployment barely budged, unemployment among Black Americans went up, as this recession continues to exacerbate existing inequalities https://t.co/KMCv1ffnAQ pic.twitter.com/OVehIoG3sJ

— Julia Wolfe (@juruwolfe) March 5, 2021

Gulp… https://t.co/ihC99KOIbd

— Shawn Donnan (@sdonnan) March 5, 2021

Trump’s constant talk about the Black unemployment rate is absurd because there is no Trump policy that influenced that. It’s an impact of Obama’s economic recovery. https://t.co/WmsIV1V97p

— Young Daddy (@Toure) October 23, 2020