Bureau of Labor Statistics Needs Reform

Many government agencies are little known to most Americans, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been one of them until recently. That all changed when President Trump fired the director for issuing “rigged” statistics and several massive, after-the-fact data revisions, including a stunning downward revision of 818,000 jobs. It never should have reached that point. The Bureau of Labor Statistics was created in 1884 with an apolitical mission: to ensure valuable economic data is collected, processed and disseminated in the most timely and accurate way possible. Read Full Article »