The Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Wednesday announced an investigation into how the jobs, inflation, and other data is collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The Trump administration has used the BLS’s recent downward revision of employment data to contend that the BLS is not accurately capturing the current state of the economy.
President Donald Trump in August fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and accuser her of being politically motivated after the BLS released a subpar monthly jobs report. To replace her, Trump nominated economist E.J. Antoni, a staunch critic of the bureau’s data…
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