The Political Hit Job on Truth When President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after July’s jobs report, the corporate media acted like the sky was falling. They wailed about “politicization,” pretending the BLS has been a sacred temple of objectivity for the last 50 years. That’s a fairy tale. The reality is, for decades both parties have leaned on agencies like the BLS to smooth over the rough edges of economic reality. They revise job numbers after the fact. They change definitions to make unemployment look smaller. They “seasonally adjust” inflation into oblivion. Trump’s nominee, E.J. Antoni, wants quarterly jobs reports instead of monthly ones, supposedly for “accuracy.” I’ve been in this game long enough to…
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