Trump fires BLS commissioner for reporting his terrible jobs numbers

Like trump has any idea what data is correct. At least he’s at a point he just says out loud his planned lack of transparency.

Trump encouraging fake data will make our economy less efficient. This info is used by industries for planning and investing.

Economists, scientists, doctors are the enemy now. Trump is continuing to dumb-down our country.

“President Trump said he directed his team to fire the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after the bureau issued a weak jobs report on Friday.”

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Yet another move I don't agree with. One of the thousands of reasons I didn't vote for him...

 

Petty little man

 

Well if they have to keep revising the report then replace with someone who can get it right the first time

 

The jobs numbers come from surveys. So el Trumpo needs to get better CPS data from his red hats and he’s got a lot of CEO’s to light up on the CES survey. Oh wait… he is the CEO on the government job survey!

 

The forever victim

 

You just keep firing everyone and eventually someone will say what you want them to say... Makes perfect sense to me.....

 

Promises made. Promises kept. Winning!

 

Because we've seen the level of quality that dear leader can hire.... fealty before competency. Now factor in the idiot drastically cut back BLS staff so they pre-emptively stated that they'd be forced to extrapolate rather than actually gather data.

 

Maybe it was actually TPS data?

 

I address the “PC load letter” errors

 

There's no end to the vileness and lack of integrity from the Trump Administration.

MAGA will see this and move right along to the latest thread on fake news about Obama/Biden/Clinton, complete with our local aggregator of fakery and nonsense from CatTurd.

 

shoot the messenger and off with their head. sounds like something a king would do.

 

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Pantheon Macroeconomics economist Samuel Tombs reckons that is because a lot of employers don’t respond in time to this survey. Employers that do respond quickly are more likely to be large, well-capitalized and well-run.

The late responders are more likely to be small and to lack the deep pockets and know-how to more easily weather challenges such as high tariffs and the sharp slowdown in the supply of immigrant labor. As responses from those laggards come in, the jobs picture dims.

The Labor Department also twice a year releases data about “benchmark” revisions to a whole year’s worth of jobs figures. A preliminary estimate comes out in August, followed by a final revision in February. Those revisions are based on the Labor Department’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, or QCEW.

The QCEW for the fourth quarter was released in June and it showed the U.S. gained far fewer jobs from March to December than what the headline figures show. Adjusting the QCEW data for seasonal swings, Barclays economist Jonathan Millar calculates it shows the U.S. added 607,000 jobs over those nine months—or fewer than half the 1.4 million jobs initially reported in the monthly figures for that period.

 

Even if you wanted to believe Trump and support this, why not first investigate and prove that the Biden appointee is fudging the numbers to make Trump look bad? That would be a massive scandal and a huge news story allowing Trump to do his favorite thing in the whole world - play the victim.

Of course we all know the answer is that the BLS is following the same process that they do every month and the numbers are what they are so an investigation wouldn't uncover any wrongoing.

 

Long ago established that any news Trump does not like is deemed " fake news" and his followers lap that up like there is no tomorrow.

 

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Monthly payroll numbers come from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ voluntary, monthly survey of 121,000 businesses and government agencies that employ roughly 26% of all nonfarm employees. It extrapolates the responses to produce estimates for the whole workforce.

In a typical month, BLS hears back from around 60% of the establishments in its sample in time for that month’s jobs report. Most of the rest normally respond in the next month or two, leading to routine revisions.

Claire Mersol, an economist at the BLS, said the collection rate in the June establishment survey was normal at 59.5%. Government agencies and large employers are overrepresented among respondents to the BLS establishment survey. Much of the revision to May and June payroll numbers was due to public schools, which employed 109,100 fewer people in June than BLS believed at the time. But the late responses from other industries also skewed negative.