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  • wtgW Offline
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    Um, how does that defend him?

    The numbers are adjusted all the time, so nothing has changed; he just doesn't like the numbers.

    It's not incompetence on the part of the BLS, it's just how things work. The initial number doesn't include all the data, and once the rest of the info is in, the number may get adjusted.

    Short description of how it works:

    https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/job-numbers-change-revisions/

    I have no confidence that the jobs numbers will mean anything after a new commissioner is appointed. You don't keep your job in this administration by doing your job. You keep it if you do what the boss wants. Mess with the yarn he is trying to spin and you'll find yourself out.

    They're gonna be cookin' the numbers from now on.

    When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie AumĂ´nier

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    • MikM Mik

      In his defense they were constantly adjusting the Biden numbers down after announcing.

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      @Mik said in Crazy Man on another rampage:

      In his defense they were constantly adjusting the Biden numbers down after announcing.

      In your opinion is that a good defense?

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        Some Republicans don't think the firing was the best idea.

        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/republicans-trump-bureau-of-labor-statistics-commissioner

        When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie AumĂ´nier

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          Steve Miller
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          Sternly worded memo to follow.

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            Daniel.
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            This will increase the confidence of the American people in their government. Or not.

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            • MikM Mik

              In his defense they were constantly adjusting the Biden numbers down after announcing.

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              @Mik said in Crazy Man on another rampage:

              In his defense they were constantly adjusting the Biden numbers down after announcing.

              Maybe you should learn a bit more about how the BLS works.

              https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/revisions-to-jobs-numbers.htm

              Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.

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                When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie AumĂ´nier

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                  Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called President Donald Trump's accusation without providing evidence that the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official manipulated jobs report numbers "a preposterous charge" on Sunday.

                  Speaking with "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos, Summers said that one official would not be able to change the numbers.

                  "These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals. There's no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number," Summers said.

                  He added, "The numbers are in line with what we're seeing from all kinds of private sector sources. This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. It — firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers. It goes with launching assaults on universities. It goes with launching assaults on law firms that defend clients that the elected boss finds uncongenial. This is really scary stuff."

                  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/larry-summers-trumps-accusations-manipulated-jobs-numbers-preposterous/story?id=124321470

                  When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie AumĂ´nier

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