The Outrageous Attack On The Bureau of Labor Statistics

By Lawrence Mishel

From epi.org

October 5th, 2012

epi.org — Apparently, Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric, is accusing the Bureau of Labor Statistics of manipulating the jobs report to help President Obama. Of course, this flaming of BLS reminds us of the episode where President Nixon thought that BLS was manipulating the unemployment data and as part of some Jewish conspiracy against him.