Whatfinger video: How did the government fail so badly on the jobs report?

The video is a long answer. The short answer is that they're lying for political advantage. The former may be a more "respectable" answer. The short answer may seem "extreme", but the truth and the lie are at extremes. It can't be both, so it has to be one or the other.

That may be too much for people to handle, so it is a lot easier to believe the lie. The lie here is that the economy is doing great, but the truth is that it isn't.