I hate CNN--Trump didn't fire the BLS head because the numbers were bad, he fired them because the BLS has been cooking those numbers for 35 years or more! Such HORRIBLE reporting!

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dragonwriter 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Trump didn't fire the BLS head because the numbers were bad

Yes, in fact, he did.

> he fired them because the BLS has been cooking those numbers for 35 years or more!

He fired them because the numbers were bad. He also publicly stated what he described as his “opinion” that the reason that the numbers were bad was that they were “rigged” for partisan reasons, but he has provided no evidence that that ever occurred, and I have no idea where the 35 years claim comes from.

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	▲	m00x a day ago \| parent [-]
		He's not wrong that the BLS is terrible at projecting these numbers, and the media is even worse and presents these guesses as facts. https://www.semafor.com/article/08/21/2024/us-job-growth-wea... But he's wrong that it's new: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bls-jobs-report-revision-trump-... Who knows if it'll end up improving with someone new. The BLS is using pretty outdated and poor data collection methods, but it hasn't changed in decades. My guess is that nothing will change with someone new, but who knows.