2024 FactCheck: on Jobs

Andy Wells: Don't make religious federal workers work on their Sabbath

A: "The Court's rulings on ‘Affirmative Action' and ‘Freedom of Religion' were right. I support both."

Explanation from Ogletree.com: On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court revived an employee's religious discrimination lawsuit, unanimously holding that to deny a sincere religious accommodation request under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, employers must show that the burden of granting it "would result in substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business." In the unanimous ruling in Groff v. DeJoy, the Supreme Court upended a longstanding standard that had allowed employers to deny a religious accommodation under Title VII as an undue hardship, by claiming it would impose a more than "de minimis" cost. The ruling sides with a former postal employee who had brought Title VII claims against the Postal Service over its refusal not to schedule him to work on Sundays, his Sabbath day.

Joe Biden: We created 15M jobs in 3 years: a record

"Biden's number is accurate: the US economy added 12.1 million jobs between Biden's first full month in office, February 2021, and January 2023. That number is indeed higher than the number of jobs added in any previous four-year presidential term. However, it's important to note that Biden took office in an unusual pandemic context that makes meaningful comparison to other periods very difficult."

Adding figures since then, The Guardian wrote on 2/2/24, "The US added 2.7m jobs last year even as the Fed drove interest rates up to a 22-year high." And CNN adds on 3/7/24, "Economists expect that US employers added 200,000 jobs last month". That totals to 15 million jobs.