{"id":731,"date":"2026-09-07T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:31:15","slug":"two-surveys-one-chart-fact-checking-the-98-of-100-jobs-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/two-surveys-one-chart-fact-checking-the-98-of-100-jobs-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Surveys, One Chart: Fact-Checking the 98-of-100-Jobs Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chart went viral this week claiming &#8220;98 of 100 new American jobs&#8221; in August went to women \u2014 158,000 for women, just 4,000 for men. The 162,000 total is real. The 12-month numbers are real. But that monthly split doesn&#8217;t appear in any BLS table we can find, and the actual household-survey number for August shows the opposite: men gained more jobs than women that month. Here&#8217;s exactly which BLS tables say what, with direct links so you can check it yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/two_surveys_one_viral_chart.php\">https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/two_surveys_one_viral_chart.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chart went viral this week claiming &#8220;98 of 100 new American jobs&#8221; in August went to women \u2014 158,000 for women, just 4,000 for men. The 162,000 total is real. The 12-month numbers are real. But that monthly split doesn&#8217;t appear in any BLS table we can find, and the actual household-survey number for &#8230; <a title=\"Two Surveys, One Chart: Fact-Checking the 98-of-100-Jobs Claim\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/two-surveys-one-chart-fact-checking-the-98-of-100-jobs-claim\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Two Surveys, One Chart: Fact-Checking the 98-of-100-Jobs Claim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-analysis","category-job-creation","category-labor-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}