On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of the annual report on consumer expenditures—a key report for understanding inflation—without explanation. The BLS has been under stress since President Donald J. Trump fired its head, Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, after the July jobs report showed far weaker hiring statistics than expected as well as a downgrade for previous months. Officials at the BLS said the new report will be “rescheduled to a later date.”
This weekend, Dan Frosch, Patrick Thomas, and Andrea Peterson of the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security. Those reports began in the 1990s to help state and local officials distribute food assistance. Last year’s report found that 18 million U.S. households experienced food insecurity during 2023. In a statement, the Department of Agriculture said: “These redundant, costly, politicized and extraneous studies do nothing more than fearmonger.”
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I talked about it at the end of another thread because the annual report is an important number that has been politicized by replacing Erika McEntarfer with a loyal propagandist. I consider it likely that the report was delayed because of unacceptably high inflation numbers.
Dictatorship is being established so rapidly that we cannot keep up.
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Been following her for about two months now. She is so very impressive.
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Been learning from her for several years but now I read her summaries daily.
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