Last week on Meet the Press, Gov. Jerry Brown repeated a stat that has become a mainstay when pointing to the California economy: Our state has added more than 2 million jobs since Brown took office in 2011.
The jobs claim was fact checked – and deemed true – by Chris Nichols of PolitiFact California. But it brought to light another quirk about jobs talk: The way we keep score when we discuss the state of the economy often fails to tell the full story.
If all we do is throw around stats like GDP and unemployment numbers, we can get an incomplete, or even distorted, picture of our state’s economic transformation and health. Simply discussing raw jobs numbers doesn’t accurately capture the economic transformation at hand or describe the economic well being of the average worker.
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