Tit for tat over stats: Senate leader says Scott labor loss figures are wrong

The leader of the Senate picked a fight Thursday with Gov. Phil Scott over the administration’s oft-used slogan 6-3-1.

The six stands for the number of workers the state loses every day; the three represents the number of students disappearing from schools across the state on a daily basis; and the one refers to the number of babies born each day to a mother addicted to drugs.

Senate President Pro Tem Tim Ashe says that the first statistic in the governor’s metric is “completely incorrect” because it is based on “dated information” that was “cherry picked.”

“For the last year and a half we’re getting an average of 2.3 people in the labor force,” Ashe said. “It’s not the same as six leaving the labor force. Six can’t be leaving if we have two coming every day.”

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