By Black Star News
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Friday, on the heels of receiving a bad June jobs report, Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfe, while allegedly falsely accusing her of manipulating the numbers, presumably to make him look bad.
Friday, the U.S. Labor Department reported that only 73,000 new jobs were tallied last month, not the projected 115,000. Making matters worse, unemployment rate rose to 4.2, and 221,000 persons were added to the unemployment rolls.
Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman issued the following response after the firing:
“Trump has made a career of calling up down, and calling the truth a lie. But the threat to the integrity of the Bureau of Labor Statistics – the trusted source of objective, factual information about the state of the economy – is a Newspeak project of a whole other level and will undermine not just public understanding but evidence-based policymaking altogether.
“As with so much else under Trump, this move is profoundly troubling, but not surprising. Authoritarians always try to control and dominate the information landscape to undermine opposition to their harmful policies.
“Yet again, to advance his narrow, personal and political interests, Donald Trump is undermining the interests of the United States and leaving us a weaker and more vulnerable nation.”
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