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Labor Department Skirts Senators' Questions on Inflation Data

A group of Democratic senators pressed the Labor Department in June over concerns about missing data in the survey behind the government's official inflation statistics. On Thursday, a Labor official wrote back without answering most of their questions. The Labor Department said in a letter seen by The Wall Street Journal that the government is 'committed to providing accurate, timely, and impartial economic statistics,' but it didn't respond in the letter to specific questions that the senators had posed. A Labor Department representative declined to comment.