No Matter Who Is President, Don't Trust Government Data

No Matter Who Is President, Don't Trust Government Data

Whether President Trump overreacted to the recent BLS is irrelevant to the fact that government data often is inaccurate and politically suspect. Original

No Matter Who Is President, Don’t Trust Government Data

This article was originally published by Connor O’Keeffee at The Mises Institute.  President Trump caused a stir last Friday after he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) hours after it released a weaker-than-expected jobs report. In a post on his social media site Truth Social, the president blamed the Biden-appointed BLS commissioner, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, for manipulating jobs numbers to prop up Democrats and make his admini…

No Matter Who is President, Don’t Trust Government Data

by Connor O’Keeffe Mises.org President Trump caused a stir last Friday after he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) hours after it released a weaker-than-expected jobs report. In a post on his social media site Truth Social, the president blamed the Biden-appointed BLS commissioner, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, for manipulating jobs numbers to prop up Democrats and make his administration look bad. He promised to appoint someone “muc…