The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former leaders shared ways the agency could improve those methods if it were to receive the funding needed to integrate more digital data.

President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday after the July jobs report showed just 73,000 jobs were added, well below the 110,000 estimate of economists polled by LSEG, as well as downward revisions to employment in May and June by 258,000 jobs.

Trump claimed the report was "RIGGED" in a social media post and accused the agency of political bias in a social media post announcing the firing.

Erica Groshen, who served as BLS com

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