Chris Rugaber
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AP Fact Checks Cory Booker Boasting About Minimum Wage
August 21st, 2020 1:29 PM
As Jazz Shaw at Hot Air pointed out, the AP Fact Check team has flagged another Democrat convention speech, this time Senator Cory "Spartacus" Booker's minimum wage remarks on Thursday night
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AP on Record-Low Black Jobless Rate: 'Taking Chances' on the 'Ignored'
June 3rd, 2018 7:36 AM
In his coverage of Friday morning's stellar jobs report, the Associated Press's Chris Rugaber came up with a couple of doozies aimed at curbing readers' enthusiasm. The AP economics writer half-expected that employers would rein in their hiring over confrontational rhetoric President Donald Trump and other foreign leaders have recently engaged in over trade and tariffs. He also implausibly framed…
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Evening News Shows Fail to Note Record Low Black Jobless Rate
January 12th, 2018 10:23 AM
On Tuesday, Julia Seymour at NewsBusters reported that the Friday evening news shows on all three networks spent a few seconds noting the government's somewhat disappointing but hardly alarming job-creation number for December (148,000 seasonally adjusted payroll jobs) reported earlier that day. Seymour observed that "Those same news programs (have) often underreported good economic news in the…
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AP's Rugaber Lowers the Bar For Unemployment Claims by Raising the 'St
January 23rd, 2012 2:54 PM
Two examples of poor press handling of what initially appeared to be fairly good news about initial unemployment claims last Thursday got lost in the pre-South Carolina primary hubbub.
The first and most obvious was in the writeup presented by the Associated Press's Chris Rugaber. In his fourth paragraph, he raised the threshold below which a consistent level of weekly claims might be…