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Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils.
Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy.
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“Deporting immigrants is cruel,” some of the ads against Cuban Americans in Congress read. Michael B. Fernández wanted to “wake up” Miami’s conscience.
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NYT's Peter Baker: "History is filled with examples of leaders seeking to stifle unwelcome information. The Soviets falsified data to make their economy look stronger than it was. The Chinese have long been suspected of doing the same..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
03.08.2025 16:30 — 👍 362 🔁 97 💬 43 📌 9
Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout.
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
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Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud.
Via @emmbadger.bsky.social
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In firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, Trump risks breaking something bigger than the reliability of our data, writes the Nobel-winning economist George Akerlof. “If we can’t believe the numbers, how do we believe anything?”
03.08.2025 14:12 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2
if you tamper with government data because it’s too downbeat, you might end up with private sector data that’s MORE downbeat
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Federal Government Shed 12,000 Jobs in July
The Trump administration cut 84,000 jobs since January.
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Data showing cracks in the U.S. labor market and President Trump’s newest barrage of tariffs shook investors around the world, weighing on stocks, the dollar and more.
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Some of the tariffs are backfiring for the businesses they are meant to help.
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On its own, the Texas map makes the Democrats’ path to the House harder, but it doesn’t necessarily make it hard.
With a possible escalation, though, who knows where it will end? Via Nate Cohn:
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Our latest Flashback history quiz:
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Both legacy airlines and budget brands have turned to a strategy of ever-expanding upgrades.
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After a Lag, Consumers Begin to Feel the Pinch of Tariffs
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Anyone else old enough to remember "South Park Conservatives"?
01.08.2025 12:14 — 👍 66 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted gov’t data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling.
I can’t say that anymore.
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“I can only conclude that they’re trying to amass a comprehensive, universal database to surveil the American people and to weaponize the data for their agenda,” said California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, whose office has helped coordinate the Medicaid and food stamp lawsuits.
02.08.2025 02:12 — 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1Me three months ago:
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Breaking News: President Trump moved to fire the official in charge of jobs data, claiming, without evidence, that labor numbers were being “manipulated.”
01.08.2025 19:16 — 👍 334 🔁 133 💬 145 📌 107
OPINION TODAY
Democrats Regain Advantage in Party Affiliation | Most expect prices to increase in coming months | Voters support a third political party, but not if it’s Musk’s | How Epstein Scandal Fractured Trump’s Relationship With MAGA ... & much more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/250731-top...
States know even more about you than the federal government does. The Trump administration is now trying to access that data, too: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
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this is a very good breakdown 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
01.08.2025 13:31 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Payroll growth plunged to 73K in July, undershooting expectations. Revisions also slashed estimates for May and June, from 144K to 19K and 133K to 14K.
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We’re starting to see some tariff effects in the inflation data: core goods inflation is at its highest rate in nearly 3 years, while services ex-housing is dropping.
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New federal data shows that vaccination rates among American children entering kindergarten fell during the 2024-25 school year, extending a worrying trend that began during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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