[Opinion] Head of Federal Agency Responsible for Wildly Inaccurate Jobs Numbers Is Trump Holdover

Agency Head Responsible For Massive Jobs Numbers Screwup is Holdover From Trump and Has Done This Before

The news that the most recent jobs report, dismal no matter how you sliced it, was off by the biggest margin in American history took a lot of us by surprise yesterday.What doesn’t surprise me is why it happened.We keep hearing on the news — well after the fact — that the Trump administration and often the former president himself were involved in some kind of coverup that we didn’t know about at the time.Statistics for COVID-related illnesses, …

Head of federal agency responsible for wildly inaccurate jobs numbers is Trump holdover

Some areas of the U.S. federal government are sacrosanct.The CDC doesn't screw around with reporting COVID information, because millions of people, including scientists, make life or death decisions based on those data.The Labor Dept. doesn't tweak jobs numbers for political purposes, or to make a p...

Head of federal agency responsible for wildly inaccurate jobs numbers is Trump holdover

Some areas of the U.S. federal government are sacrosanct. The CDC doesn't screw around with reporting COVID information, because millions of people, including scientists, make life or death decisions based on those data. The Labor Dept. doesn't tweak jobs numbers for political purposes, or to make a president look good or bad, because to report inaccurate results leads to tremendous distrust of the government, messes up markets, and plans of m…

Head of Federal Agency Responsible for Wildly Inaccurate Jobs Numbers Is Trump Holdover

Asked if He Will Resign, the Commissioner – a Former Heritage Foundation Fellow – Does Not Answer Some areas of the U.S. federal government are sacrosanct. The CDC doesn’t screw around with reporting COVID information, because millions of people, including scientists, make life or death decisions based on those data. The Labor Dept. doesn’t tweak jobs …