Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has exposed deepening fissures within a data agency vital to measuring the strength of the world’s largest economy.
The US president sacked BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours after the agency on Friday published a gloomy July jobs report, saying the data had been “totally rigged” because of big downward revisions to the two previous months.
But former BLS officials and economists strongly dispute that assertion, saying Trump’s federal hiring freeze combined with years of under-investment are harming the US’s ability to produce pivotal data.
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