Bureau of Labour Statistics – Charm

The trouble with America’s shutdown economy

Cs news1 month ago09 mins

Imagine, for a moment, America without the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS). To some wonks, few scenarios are more terrifying. After President Donald Trump threw a tantrum over weak job figures and sacked the head of the largely apolitical body in August, putting forward EJ Antoni, a partisan figure, to replace her, such a scenario…

Opinion | Trump isn’t the first leader to be paranoid about economic data

Cs news4 months ago03 mins

Who before this month had ever heard of Erika McEntarfer, the career statistician who toiled quietly and uncontroversially at the heart of the US data-gathering machine, for 20 years at the Census Bureau and more recently as head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics? Who except US President Donald Trump could have sought to create…