Senator J.D. Vance has been celebrating September’s jobs numbers as a victory for Trump economic policies, but the Today in Ohio podcast team is calling him out for what appears to be his disconnection from our economic reality.

The latest federal jobs report tells a troubling story that Vance seems to have missed. As Laura Johnston explained on the podcast, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that employment in July and August actually was overstated for those months,” she said. Vance has been talking about September numbers, which were steady, while ignoring that for the year, the jobs picture is bleak.

“JD Vance does not seem to have received this memo,” Johnston said. “Because he was declaring on Thursday that there were stronger than expected September jobs and that Trump econom

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