Trump’s War on Labor Data Didn’t Change the Economic Outlook

NOTUS cited CEI’s expert on economic output

Ryan Young, a senior economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said he believes BLS is “operating in good faith” and not “being politicized right now.” But that doesn’t mean the agency, which sits within the Department of Labor, escaped the consequences of a chaotic year for the federal government.

“I trusted BLS before and I do now, but the fact that they’ve shed so much staff is affecting the quality of their work,” Young said, adding that the statisticians are increasingly interpolating from the data and modifying their analyses to keep up with their responsibilities.

“It’s fine as a patch-up but it’s not something you want to have going on for years and years,” he said.

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