It’s ‘not easy to manipulate data’, warns former labor statistics chief after Trump fires bureau head - short news
Erica Groshen says she’s worried about US president bending bureau to his will, but hopes he ‘won’t go that far’
Donald Trump will need to take more radical action than simply firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) if he is determined to “cook the books” on jobs figures, the federal agency’s former commissioner has said.
Erica Groshen, who ran the BLS during Barack Obama’s presidency, said meddling with how government statisticians calculate..
source: The Guardian - 08.08.2025