CNN Economic Commentator Lunatic Floats Bizarre Reason For Slow Job Growth

CNN trotted out its Princeton-educated economic commentator Catherine Rampell on Monday to explain why job growth was so slow. An April report showed an economy that added just 266,000 jobs, down big time from March when 770,000 jobs were added. It's a huge issue for the Biden administration and definitely needs to be addressed. Enter Rampell, who also serves as a Washington Post columnist and has a Twitter feed riddled with typical woke talking points.

Catherine, why exactly did the April report show construction companies, manufacturing, automakers and restaurant businesses struggling to fill jobs? Buckle up, Catherine snapped off an all-timer.

She ran through the Biden administration talking point reasons -- including generous unemployment benefits -- before adding “the risk of, frankly, getting assaulted at work if you tell a customer to wear a mask” as a reason for people not returning to the workforce.

Seriously. Right out of Rampell's mouth.

And exactly how many examples can Rampell show of people being assaulted for telling customers to wear a mask? A dozen? The jobs report was DOWN HALF-A-MILLION JOBS from the March report. In her May 7 opinion piece, Rampell linked to a July 16, 2020 story on McDonald's workers being assaulted and is pushing that nearly one-year-old report featuring a survey conducted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as anecdotal evidence why workers won't go get a job in April 2021.

That's what Rampell is basing her May 2021 nonsense on. Since that 2020 SEIU survey, McDonald's has pivoted to a drive-thru-focused business plan in which these workers Rampell is all worried about won't even be dealing in-store with anti-maskers.

"Some economists note, too, that the $300-a-week federal jobless benefit, available until September, has come on top of state payments that average about $320. The combined unemployment benefits mean that anyone earning less than $32,000 a year can potentially receive more income from unemployment aid than from their previous jobs, according to economists at Bank of America," the Associated Press reported last week.

Nowhere in that AP report did it state people aren't returning to the workforce because they're afraid of being assaulted for telling people to wear a mask. But, that's what Rampell's hanging her woke BLM hat on. That's one of the hills she's willing to die on.