Conservatives join backlash over Trump pick for head of labor statistics: ‘Not a credible source of information’
by Michael Sainato and Maya Yang from Economics | The Guardian on (#6ZASF)
Even Republican economists have criticized president's pick of EJ Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer, a veteran economist with decades of experience inside the federal government, after claiming without evidence that official jobs data had been rigged" against him.
In her place, the US president has lined up an ardent supporter of his agenda accused of regularly misrepresenting and exaggerating statistics, who previously urged Trump's officials to take a chainsaw" to the agency he has been tapped to oversee.
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