Donald Trump's selection as next commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) threatens to bring a new level of politicization to what for decades has been a nonpartisan agency issuing reports on the nation's economic health, according to Democrats and some economists.

While many former Labour Department officials say it's unlikely that as commissioner of the department's Bureau of Labour Statistics, E.J. Antoni will be able to distort or alter the economic data, he could change the way it is presented.

Antoni was nominated by Trump after the BLS released a jobs report on Aug. 1 that showed that hiring had weakened in July and was much lower in May and June than the agency had previously reported. Even as the rest of the report contained positive data points for the Trump Wh

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