Unemployment numbers and the consumer price index come out every month like clockwork, giving individuals, businesses and local and state government agencies across the nation critical information.

Economists and others fear wide-ranging ramifications for California if the reliability of that information is uncertain, calling the data fundamental for making an array of policy and funding decisions.

President Donald Trump recently , the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, because he didn’t like that the July jobs report showed a drastic slowdown in hiring, and the updated numbers for May and June, after the common process of a revision. He , without evidence, of rigging the data.

Trump has nominated E.J. Antoni to head the agency. Antoni is the chief economist at the right-wing Heri

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