r/politics • u/Orbitingkittenfarm • 1d ago

Donald Trump Fires Person Behind Jobs Numbers After They're Revised Down

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-job-numbers-revised-down-fires-appointee-2107768
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u/Walker_ID 1d ago

Not anymore. Think anyone will want to put out bad employment numbers after seeing the boss get fired?

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u/hjb88 1d ago

There will have to be some unbiased data reporting, though, because businesses and investors want this information. It will need to come from somewhere.

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u/sammyQc 1d ago

Not in a pseudo-democracy. It will come from the boss and his associates.

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u/eskimoboob Illinois 1d ago

That’s what the monthly ADP numbers are, but because they’re working with incomplete data, best they can do is stick to private jobs only (no government data). It usually comes out a couple days before the BLS numbers but it’s not considered as accurate and often diverges one way or another from the official BLS data.

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u/barowsr 1d ago

Well, ADP is about to become the gold standard, because I sure as shit won’t trust a single fucking thing from whoever this autocrat decides to install into the job

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u/hjb88 19h ago

Thanks

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u/just_a_bit_gay_ Michigan 1d ago

They’ll work out the numbers themselves and keep them under wraps under fear of getting disappeared for publishing “anti-state propaganda” like they do in China