03-08-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
The Economist Trump Targeted Over ‘Rigged' Jobs Data
About a year into her tenure as the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer stood before the Atlanta Economics Club and laid out what she saw as two obstacles to her job producing the government's economic data: the cost of doing that work was rising, and the number of people responding to surveys was declining.
The bureau, she said, would aim to modernize and keep going. 'If we succeed, the U.S. can continue to have this rich set of economic data,' she told the group.
